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Non-epidermoid Epithelial Neoplasms

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Most cases of carcinoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses — a rare entity — are of epidermoid type so that the numbers of non-epidermoid carcinomas are very small indeed. Sinonasal adenocarcinomas are primarily of two types, one originating from the surface epithelium and the other from mucosal seromucinous glands (most of the latter being salivary gland adenocarcinomas of different types). The exact incidence of each of these types of sinonasal adenocarcinomas is extremely difficult to access as almost every report on the subject has made no distinction between adenocarcinoma from surface epithelium and seromucinous gland adenocarcinomas (apart from adenoid cystic carcinoma). However, one can estimate sinonasal adenocarcinomas to represent from 6% to 13% of sinonasal malignancies.1, 2

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  1. Department of Histopathology, UCL Medical School, Rockefeller Building, University Street, London, WC1E 6JJ, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), D Path, FCAP (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  2. Royal Free and UCL Medical School, University of London, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), D Path, FCAP (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  3. Royal National Throat, Nose nad Ear Hospital, London, UK

    Leslie Michaels MD, FRCPath, FRCP(C), D Path, FCAP (Professor Emeritus, Honorary Consultant Pathologist)

  4. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

    Henrik B. Hellquist MD, PhD, SAPath(Stockh), FCAP (Professor of Pathology, Chairman)

  5. Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

    Henrik B. Hellquist MD, PhD, SAPath(Stockh), FCAP (Professor of Pathology, Chairman)

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Michaels, L., Hellquist, H.B. (2001). Non-epidermoid Epithelial Neoplasms. In: Ear, Nose and Throat Histopathology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0235-9_17

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