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Three patients with submandibular gland carcinoma were treated in our department from 1984 to 1986.
All of them chiefly complained of a tumor in the submandibular region. In 2 cases, metastases to the neck lymph nodes were seen preoperatively. Surgical treatment was done for all cases. Two patients with the metastases to the neck lymph nodes received radical neck dissection and post-operative irradiation. The primary and the neck lesion were well controlled in all cases, but distant metastases (bone and lung) occurred. One case with solitary lung metastasis was cured by lobectomy of the lung, but the other 2 cases were not controlled with chemotherapy (CDDP, ADM, Ex, etc.).
It is suggested that we must be careful with distant metastases especially to the bones and lungs, in the treatment of submandibular gland carcinoma.
