External carotid artery sacrifice in the treatment of infantile haemangiopericytoma in a neonate

Publication date: Available online 24 July 2017
Source:International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Author(s): R. Pokrowiecki, K. Dowgierd
Haemangiopericytoma of the head and neck (HN-HPC) is a rare neoplasm occurring in children. The rarity of the tumour poses a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Despite protocols that recommend the use of chemotherapy prior to surgery, no treatment standard has yet been proposed. This article reports the case of a 5-month-old infant with a rapidly growing, giant life-threatening HN-HPC that was treated successfully by two-stage surgery without adjuvant chemotherapy.



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