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Case Reports
. 2006 Mar;101(3):e76-8.
doi: 10.1016/j.tripleo.2005.06.002.

Airway obstruction due to metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the tongue

Eusebio Torres-Carranza  1 , Alberto Garcia-Perla, Pedro Infante-Cossio, Rodolfo Belmonte-Caro, Juan-Maria Loizaga-Iriondo, Jose-Luis Gutierrez-Perez
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Airway obstruction due to metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the tongue

Eusebio Torres-Carranza et al. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2006 Mar.

Abstract

Metastatic lesions in the tongue are extremely rare. Renal cell carcinoma is the most frequent kidney neoplasm, with a high tendency to metastasize. It is the third most frequent neoplasm to metastasize to the head and neck region. We report a case of a rapidly enlarging tongue metastasis causing airway obstruction in a patient with widespread disease. Local excision was the elected treatment to provide palliation of the obstruction.

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