Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Metastatic lesions to the oro-facial region may be the first evidence of dissemination of an unknown tumour from its primary site. CASE PRESENTATION: We described a case of metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible presenting with pain and loosening of teeth in a 70 years...

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Autores principales: Ismail, Sumairi Bin, Abraham, Mannil Thomas, Zaini, Zuraiza Binti, Yaacob, Hashim Bin, Zain, Rosnah Binti
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6533
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author Ismail, Sumairi Bin
Abraham, Mannil Thomas
Zaini, Zuraiza Binti
Yaacob, Hashim Bin
Zain, Rosnah Binti
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Abraham, Mannil Thomas
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description INTRODUCTION: Metastatic lesions to the oro-facial region may be the first evidence of dissemination of an unknown tumour from its primary site. CASE PRESENTATION: We described a case of metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible presenting with pain and loosening of teeth in a 70 years old female patient leading to extraction of the loose teeth. CONCLUSION: The present case emphasizes the importance of considering metastasis in the differential diagnosis of swelling related to loosening of teeth, even though the patient had no history of any malignant disease.
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spelling pubmed-27099692009-10-14 Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report Ismail, Sumairi Bin Abraham, Mannil Thomas Zaini, Zuraiza Binti Yaacob, Hashim Bin Zain, Rosnah Binti Cases J Research article INTRODUCTION: Metastatic lesions to the oro-facial region may be the first evidence of dissemination of an unknown tumour from its primary site. CASE PRESENTATION: We described a case of metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible presenting with pain and loosening of teeth in a 70 years old female patient leading to extraction of the loose teeth. CONCLUSION: The present case emphasizes the importance of considering metastasis in the differential diagnosis of swelling related to loosening of teeth, even though the patient had no history of any malignant disease. BioMed Central 2009-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2709969/ /pubmed/19829820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6533 Text en Copyright ©2009 Ismail et al; licensee Cases Network Ltd. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research article
Ismail, Sumairi Bin
Abraham, Mannil Thomas
Zaini, Zuraiza Binti
Yaacob, Hashim Bin
Zain, Rosnah Binti
Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report
title Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report
title_full Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report
title_fullStr Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report
title_short Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report
title_sort metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the mandible: a case report
topic Research article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-6533
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