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Large oral soft tissue metastasis from anaplastic carcinoma of the lung mimicking a primitive malignancy: case report and brief review of the literature
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Metastatic tumours to the oral region are rare, and those reported in the buccal soft tissues are even less frequent. We describe a case of anaplastic carcinoma of the lung in a 60-year-old man, presenting a huge oral metastasis as the first sign of his primitive lung malignancy. Clinically, the oral lesion mimicked a high-grade primitive carcinoma of the oral cavity. The biopsy established the gingival metastasis from lung cancer which was confirmed by a fine-needle aspiration cytology examination. We report an uncommon case of metastatic lung carcinoma to the gingiva emphasizing the differential diagnosis between primary and metastatic tumours; a short discussion on the pathways of metastatization to oral cavity soft tissues, as well as brief review of the literature are also presented.
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....1c7887278c171f268a33489df1ede649