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Clinicopathological, Morphological, Immunohistochemical and Molecular Biological Characteristics of Rare Salivary Tumors
Koshyk, Olena ; Skálová, Alena (advisor) ; Simpson, Roderick (referee) ; Leivo, Ilmo (referee)
The actual dissertation is the result of Olena Koshyk's doctoral study at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen, from 2019 to 2023. The author focused the main part of her research on rare salivary gland tumors but also participated in studies related to sinonasal soft tissue tumors. The studies used a wide range of investigation methods including morphology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular genetic methods in order to provide new insights for accurate tumor diagnosis and to propose novel approaches and refinements in the classification of selected head and neck tumors. The dissertation is divided into two parts. The first part represents four articles that present the latest data on rare salivary gland tumors. The first paper concentrated on the new rare oncocytic variant of mucoepidermoid carcinoma with comprehensive morphological and immunohistochemical descriptions, and molecular alterations. Special attention was paid to the differential diagnosis with oncocytic tumors for accurate diagnosis. The second study covered a clear cell subtype of myoepithelial carcinoma which showed EWSR gene rearrangements. Different fusions in the PLAG1 gene were found in such tumors but fusion transcripts for the EWSR gene were not detected. The study also focusses on a comparison of the...
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