TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report

The metastases to the TMJ from a primary lung tumour is a very rare occurrence. This case is unusual in several aspects, as the non-reducible dislocation of the TMJ was the first clinical manifestation of the tumour. CT staging showed that this secondary tumour in the condyle was the only bone metas...

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Autores principales: Boniello, Roberto, Gasparini, Giulio, D'Amato, Giuseppe, Di Petrillo, Alessandro, Pelo, Sandro
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2427012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18533016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-160X-4-8
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author Boniello, Roberto
Gasparini, Giulio
D'Amato, Giuseppe
Di Petrillo, Alessandro
Pelo, Sandro
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Gasparini, Giulio
D'Amato, Giuseppe
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Pelo, Sandro
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description The metastases to the TMJ from a primary lung tumour is a very rare occurrence. This case is unusual in several aspects, as the non-reducible dislocation of the TMJ was the first clinical manifestation of the tumour. CT staging showed that this secondary tumour in the condyle was the only bone metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-24270122008-06-13 TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report Boniello, Roberto Gasparini, Giulio D'Amato, Giuseppe Di Petrillo, Alessandro Pelo, Sandro Head Face Med Case Report The metastases to the TMJ from a primary lung tumour is a very rare occurrence. This case is unusual in several aspects, as the non-reducible dislocation of the TMJ was the first clinical manifestation of the tumour. CT staging showed that this secondary tumour in the condyle was the only bone metastasis. BioMed Central 2008-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2427012/ /pubmed/18533016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-160X-4-8 Text en Copyright © 2008 Boniello et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Boniello, Roberto
Gasparini, Giulio
D'Amato, Giuseppe
Di Petrillo, Alessandro
Pelo, Sandro
TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report
title TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report
title_full TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report
title_fullStr TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report
title_full_unstemmed TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report
title_short TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report
title_sort tmj metastasis: a unusual case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2427012/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18533016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-160X-4-8
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