tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học:" TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: TMJ metastasis: A unusual case report | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Open Access Case report TMJ metastasis A unusual case report Roberto Boniello Giulio Gasparini Giuseppe D Amato Alessandro Di Petrillo and Sandro Pelo Address Department of Maxillo Facial Surgery Catholic University Medical School Rome Italy Email Roberto Boniello - Giulio Gasparini - Giuseppe D Amato - giuseppedamato1@ Alessandro Di Petrillo - alessandrodp9@ Sandro Pelo - Corresponding author Published 4 June 2008 Received 12 October 2007 Head Face Medicine 2008 4 8 doi 1746-I60X-4-8 Accepted 4 June 2008 This article is available from http content 4 1 8 2008 Boniello et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The metastases to the TMJ from a primary lung tumour is a very rare occurrence. This case is unusual in several aspects as the non-reducible dislocation of the TMJ was the first clinical manifestation of the tumour. CT staging showed that this secondary tumour in the condyle was the only bone metastasis. Introduction Metastases involving the TMJ are rare and only 40 cases have been reported in the international literature 1 . The primary site of the carcinoma was the breast in 9 cases the lung in 9 the prostate in 5 and the rectum in 3 2 followed by the liver cardia 3 uterus and pancreas 1 case each . In 2 cases the primary tumour was a melanoma 4 the nose being the primary site in one case and the hallux in the other. In 6 cases the primary site was not identified. As a rule TMJ metastases manifest clinically even years after the onset of the primary tumour. In this study we present a very unusual case unique in the literature in which the