Childhood tongue squamous cell carcinoma
A 15 year old female child with a chronic 0.5 cm ulcer in the right side of her tongue base which was well differentiated SCC in pathologic examination was referred to Iran Cancer Institute because of resistance to treatment with chemoradiation.\nHer dentition was good and she had a bulged reddish lesion in the base of her tongue on the right side. There was no history of smoking, ethanol consumption or any other harmful habits. The patient had no family history of tongue SCC.\nThere was no palpable neck lymph node and no metastasis was found in neck sonography and thorax CT scan.\nResection and primary repair of tongue was done by pull through technique (). Tumor diameter was 0.5cm in pathology report. Six days later she was discharged in good condition but did not refer to clinic for follow up. Telephone follow up reveled that because of an orocutaneous fistula in the suture line a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy was done for her in another hospital. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy had failed and caused a missed peritonitis. Laparotomy had not been effective and the patient had expired about two weeks later.