Maxillofacial metastasis from breast cancer

Metastatic tumors to paranasal sinuses are exclusively rare. In this paper, we report acase of breast carcinoma metastasizing to the right maxilla. The metastasis occurred 5 years after radical mastectomy and presented as a primary sinonasalmass. The diagnosis was confirmed with histopathologic andi...

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Autores principales: Namad, Tariq, Benbrahim, Zineb, Najib, Rajae, Mohammed, Afif, Baggar, Soufiane, Bouyahia, Nezar, Arifi, Samia, Mellas, Nawfel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25767674
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.156.4948
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author Namad, Tariq
Benbrahim, Zineb
Najib, Rajae
Mohammed, Afif
Baggar, Soufiane
Bouyahia, Nezar
Arifi, Samia
Mellas, Nawfel
author_facet Namad, Tariq
Benbrahim, Zineb
Najib, Rajae
Mohammed, Afif
Baggar, Soufiane
Bouyahia, Nezar
Arifi, Samia
Mellas, Nawfel
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description Metastatic tumors to paranasal sinuses are exclusively rare. In this paper, we report acase of breast carcinoma metastasizing to the right maxilla. The metastasis occurred 5 years after radical mastectomy and presented as a primary sinonasalmass. The diagnosis was confirmed with histopathologic andimmunohistochemical examination however the patient died before starting any specific treatment because of tumor bleeding.
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spelling pubmed-43452222015-03-12 Maxillofacial metastasis from breast cancer Namad, Tariq Benbrahim, Zineb Najib, Rajae Mohammed, Afif Baggar, Soufiane Bouyahia, Nezar Arifi, Samia Mellas, Nawfel Pan Afr Med J Case Report Metastatic tumors to paranasal sinuses are exclusively rare. In this paper, we report acase of breast carcinoma metastasizing to the right maxilla. The metastasis occurred 5 years after radical mastectomy and presented as a primary sinonasalmass. The diagnosis was confirmed with histopathologic andimmunohistochemical examination however the patient died before starting any specific treatment because of tumor bleeding. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4345222/ /pubmed/25767674 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2014.19.156.4948 Text en © Tariq Namad et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mellas, Nawfel
Maxillofacial metastasis from breast cancer
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title_full Maxillofacial metastasis from breast cancer
title_fullStr Maxillofacial metastasis from breast cancer
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title_short Maxillofacial metastasis from breast cancer
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4345222/
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