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Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2003;129:487.

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Diagnosis: Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) of the tongue

Alveolar soft part sarcoma is a rare neoplasm, representing fewer than 1% of all soft tissue sarcomas.¹ It is uniformly malignant, with no benign counterpart. Christopherson et al² reported the first case of ASPS in 1952. This neoplasm occurs predominantly in adolescents and young adults, most often in the upper and lower extremities, and has a female predominance (female-male ratio, 2:1).¹ The head and neck region is the second most common site in adolescents and young adults and is the most common site of occurrence in infants and children.^1-2 Alveolar soft part sarcoma of the head and neck occurs most commonly in the orbit (41%) and the tongue (25%), followed by the neck, temporal, parotid, nasoethmoidal, and jugulodigastric regions.^{1, 3-7} The tongue has seldom been reported as a primary site.⁸

Clinically, ASPS of the head and neck typically presents as a slow-growing, painless mass that does not affect function. Clinical and . . . [Full Text of this Article]