In recent months, Ms. Liu, who lives in Hubei, always felt something stuck in her throat when she swallowed and ate. When I went to the community for nucleic acid testing, I accidentally found a huge lump hidden under her tongue. At the suggestion of local doctors, Ms. Liu recently went to Guangzhou to seek help from Song Ming, the first "Guangzhou powerful young and middle-aged doctor" and the chief physician of the head and neck surgery clinic of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center.

"Ms. Liu's tongue root tumor reached 5 mm, occupying almost the entire tongue root and protruding into the oropharyngeal cavity." Chief physician Song Ming said that the MRI examination showed that the tongue root mass was huge, with a range of about 47 mm× 46 mm× 45 mm, invading part of the tongue body forward and part of the basal muscle downward. The pathological diagnosis of biopsy was adenoid cystic carcinoma of the tongue root.

Tongue root cancer is not sensitive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common pathological type of oropharyngeal tumors such as tongue root, tonsil and soft palate. The treatment methods include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. "Ms. Liu's adenoid cystic carcinoma of the tongue root is rare and not sensitive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Surgery is the best treatment choice for Ms. Liu. "

Faced with the huge tumor at the base of Ms. Liu's tongue, Song Ming was caught in a dilemma: according to the traditional surgical treatment, Ms. Liu needed laparotomy, but this operation required splitting the lower lip and mandible to expose and remove the tumor at the base of her tongue.

The above contents refer to Guangzhou Daily-Women do nucleic acid testing, and unexpectedly find a huge tumor at the root of the tongue!