Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2019)

Management of undifferentiated high‐grade pleomorphic sarcoma of parotid region in elderly women

  • Michele Sessa,
  • Daniela Tonni,
  • Adriano Zangrandi,
  • Luca Oscar Redaelli de Zinis,
  • Domenico Cuda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1951
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 3
pp. 537 – 541

Abstract

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Key Clinical Message Undifferentiated high‐grade pleomorphic sarcoma is a slow‐growing tumor rarely localized in the head and neck region. The treatment of UHPS should be based on large surgical resections in free margins associated with neck dissection. Postoperative radiotherapy improves local control of the disease and the prognosis quod vitam.

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