Facial Nerve Palsy: An Unusual Presenting Feature of Small Cell Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the world and is the most common cause of cancer-related death in men and women; it is responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually worldwide. It can metastasize to any organ. The most common site of metastasis in the head and neck region is the...

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Autores principales: Yildiz, Ozcan, Buyuktas, Deram, Ekiz, Esra, Selcukbiricik, Fatih, Papila, Irfan, Papila, Cigdem
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2011
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Published: January 2011
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21526004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000324182
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author Yildiz, Ozcan
Buyuktas, Deram
Ekiz, Esra
Selcukbiricik, Fatih
Papila, Irfan
Papila, Cigdem
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description Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the world and is the most common cause of cancer-related death in men and women; it is responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually worldwide. It can metastasize to any organ. The most common site of metastasis in the head and neck region is the brain; however, it can also metastasize to the oral cavity, gingiva, tongue, parotid gland and lymph nodes. This article reports a case of small cell lung cancer presenting with metastasis to the facial nerve.
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spelling pubmed-30824872011-04-27 Facial Nerve Palsy: An Unusual Presenting Feature of Small Cell Lung Cancer Yildiz, Ozcan Buyuktas, Deram Ekiz, Esra Selcukbiricik, Fatih Papila, Irfan Papila, Cigdem Case Rep Oncol Published: January 2011 Lung cancer is the second most common type of cancer in the world and is the most common cause of cancer-related death in men and women; it is responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually worldwide. It can metastasize to any organ. The most common site of metastasis in the head and neck region is the brain; however, it can also metastasize to the oral cavity, gingiva, tongue, parotid gland and lymph nodes. This article reports a case of small cell lung cancer presenting with metastasis to the facial nerve. S. Karger AG 2011-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3082487/ /pubmed/21526004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000324182 Text en Copyright © 2011 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: January 2011
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Buyuktas, Deram
Ekiz, Esra
Selcukbiricik, Fatih
Papila, Irfan
Papila, Cigdem
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title Facial Nerve Palsy: An Unusual Presenting Feature of Small Cell Lung Cancer
title_full Facial Nerve Palsy: An Unusual Presenting Feature of Small Cell Lung Cancer
title_fullStr Facial Nerve Palsy: An Unusual Presenting Feature of Small Cell Lung Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Facial Nerve Palsy: An Unusual Presenting Feature of Small Cell Lung Cancer
title_short Facial Nerve Palsy: An Unusual Presenting Feature of Small Cell Lung Cancer
title_sort facial nerve palsy: an unusual presenting feature of small cell lung cancer
topic Published: January 2011
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3082487/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21526004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000324182
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