Table 1: A brief review of carcinosarcoma ex pleomorphic adenoma cases in the past two decades.
Reference |
Age& gender |
Site |
Epithelial component |
Mesenchymal component |
Outcome |
Meeae Y Kwon, et al. [7] |
47/ Male |
Parotid |
Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma SCC |
RMS, Fibrosarcoma |
Disease free at 12 months post-surgery |
Dimitrios Andreadis, et al. [21] |
73/ Male |
Parotid |
Salivary duct carcinoma |
Fibrosarcoma MFH (UPS) Osteosarcoma |
Not available |
Jin Tanahashi, et al. [4] |
56/ Male |
Submandibular |
Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma SDC, SCC, UC |
Spindle cell sarcoma Chondrosarcoma Liposarcoma RMS |
Disease free at 15 months post- surgery |
Fedrik Petersson, et al. [17] |
50/ Male |
Parotid |
TTF1- positive LCNEC |
Myxofibrosarcoma |
Not applicable (recently diagnosed) |
Ishikura, et al. [27] |
47/ Female |
Parotid |
UC, adenocarcinoma |
Chondrosarcoma, osteosarcoma |
Not available |
Duan Feng, et al. [8] |
76/ Female |
Parotid |
PDC |
Spindle cell sarcoma with small % of osteosarcoma |
Disease free at 12 months post- surgery |
Yingting Mok, et al. [22] |
74/ Male |
Parotid |
Salivary duct carcinoma |
UPS |
Disease free at 8 months post- surgery |
Tiffany Ng Chao, et al. [28] |
83/ Female |
Parotid |
Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma |
Chondrosarcoma |
Lung and liver nodules at 3 years after diagnosis |
Shalini Bhalla, et al. [23] |
50/ Male |
Submandibular |
Adenocarcinoma |
UPS |
Disease free at 12 months post -surgery |
Chang Gok Woo C, et al. [10] |
72/ Male |
Parotid |
SCC, adenocarcinoma |
Osteosarcoma |
Abdominal metastasis at 6 months post – surgery |
Yoko Endo, et al. [5] |
64/ Male |
Submandibular |
Adenocarcinoma |
Osteosarcoma |
Lung metastasis at 4 months post – surgery |
Ali A Almubarak, et al. [6] |
75/ Male |
Parotid |
SCC |
Chondrosarcoma |
Not available |
Present study |
(i)58/ Male
(ii)32/ Female |
Parotid
Parotid |
Myoepithelial carcinoma
Salivary Duct carcinoma |
Osteosarcoma
UPS |
Locoregional recurrence at 2 months post – surgery and died 6 months after. Expired at 8 months post - surgery
|
Abbreviations: SCC: Squamous Cell Carcinoma; RMS: Rhabdomyosarcoma; MFH (UPS): Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma (Undifferentiated Pleomorphic sarcoma); SDC: Salivary Duct Carcinoma; UC: Undifferentiated Carcinoma; TTF1 positive LCNEC: Thyroid Transcription Factor 1 positive Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma; PDC: Poorly Differentiated Carcinoma