Primary Cutaneous Versus Salivary Gland Origin Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is a malignant glandular epithelial neoplasm that most commonly arises in the major salivary glands. Primary cutaneous MEC is very rare. There is a particular diagnostic challenge in determining the primary site of MEC when it is found in skin overlying the parotid gland. Attention to a combination of morphologic findings may be helpful. However, differentiation of primary cutaneous MEC from secondary cutaneous involvement by a parotid MEC may be unnecessary once the parotid gland is infiltrated. We report the case of a 54-year-old male with a 2-cm asymptomatic mass overlying the right parotid gland, which was managed by excision of the affected skin, right total parotidectomy, and right neck dissection. Histopathologic and immunohistochemical findings were consistent with a cutaneous intermediate-grade MEC. Postoperative radiotherapy was deferred. The patient showed no evidence of recurrence or metastasis at 2 months before self-discontinuing follow-up. To our knowledge, this is only the second reported case of MEC involving the parotid gland, but of overlying primary cutaneous origin.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".