Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation

Cancer of the oral cavity makes up approximately 30% of all head and neck region tumors. Skin metastasis is rare with an incidence ranging between 0.7% and 2.4%. Skin metastasis usually occurs in the neck, scalp, and over the skin near the primary site. We report a patient with carcinoma left buccal...

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Autores principales: Srinivasan, Shashank, Leekha, Nitin, Gupta, Sweety, Mithal, Umang, Arora, Vandana, De, Sudarsan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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E-IJD Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4966425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27512210
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.185764
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author Srinivasan, Shashank
Leekha, Nitin
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Arora, Vandana
De, Sudarsan
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description Cancer of the oral cavity makes up approximately 30% of all head and neck region tumors. Skin metastasis is rare with an incidence ranging between 0.7% and 2.4%. Skin metastasis usually occurs in the neck, scalp, and over the skin near the primary site. We report a patient with carcinoma left buccal mucosa who presented with distant skin metastases to the right side chest wall.
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spelling pubmed-49664252016-08-10 Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation Srinivasan, Shashank Leekha, Nitin Gupta, Sweety Mithal, Umang Arora, Vandana De, Sudarsan Indian J Dermatol E-IJD Case Report Cancer of the oral cavity makes up approximately 30% of all head and neck region tumors. Skin metastasis is rare with an incidence ranging between 0.7% and 2.4%. Skin metastasis usually occurs in the neck, scalp, and over the skin near the primary site. We report a patient with carcinoma left buccal mucosa who presented with distant skin metastases to the right side chest wall. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4966425/ /pubmed/27512210 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.185764 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation
title Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation
title_full Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation
title_fullStr Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation
title_short Distant Skin Metastases from Carcinoma Buccal Mucosa: A Rare Presentation
title_sort distant skin metastases from carcinoma buccal mucosa: a rare presentation
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