PMC3138827_01
O-TIE treatment of 18-year old pregnant women with facial alveolar RMS. (A) Photograph of swelling of the left lower jaw. (B) Follow-up photograph demonstrating resolution of the facial alveolar RMS after oral low-dose chemotherapy with O-TIE. (C) Cranial MRI scan (STIR sequence, coronar, 0.3 TESLA). Tumor mass in the left inferior mandible that extends into the mandibular bone and the soft tissue of the jaw maximum (tumor size: 4.4 x 4.1 x 3.0cm, volume 28ml). (D) Follow-up cranial MRI scan after O-TIE (STIR sequence, coronar, 1.5 TESLA). Clearly marked regression of the extended alveolar RMS in the lower jaw 13 days after last O-TIE chemotherapy (tumor size: 1.5 x 1.2 x 2.1cm, volume 2ml).
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An 18-year-old woman at 27-weeks of gestation, gravida 2, para 0, was referred to our hospital with a painless mass of her left lower jaw which had rapidly progressed over approximately four weeks (Fig. 1). Grossly, the tumor was well circumscribed with an oral/buccal gelatinous nodular outside portion (Fig. 1). The mother's postpartum facial MRI showed tumor reduction from the initial volume of 28ml (tumor size: 4.4 x 4.1 x 3.0cm) to 2ml (tumor size: 1.5 x 1.2 x 2.1cm) six weeks after start of O-TIE (Fig. 1).