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Gingival Metastasis From a Prostate Adenocarcinoma: Report of a Case
Author(s) -
Piattelli A.,
Fioroni M.,
Rubini C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of periodontology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.036
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1943-3670
pISSN - 0022-3492
DOI - 10.1902/jop.1999.70.4.441
Subject(s) - medicine , soft tissue , prostate cancer , metastasis , cancer , lesion , prostate , adenocarcinoma , prostatic adenocarcinoma , oral cavity , pathology , dentistry
Prostate cancer is the cause of 10% of cancer‐related deaths in males in the United States. Metastases are found late in the course of the disease. Metastatic tumors of the oral cavity are rare, representing about 1% of oral tumors and affect jaws much more frequently than soft tissues. Metastatic pr ostate cancer tends to involve the bones of the axial skeleton. In a recent review, 22 cases of metastases to the jawbones from prostate cancer were found in 390 cases. On the other hand, only 1 case of a metastasis to the oral soft tissues was reported. The authors describe the second case of oral soft tissue metastasis from a prostate cancer. The metastatic lesion was located in the gingiva. Clinicians should be aware of oral soft tissue metastases since they can be the first sign of a not yet diagnosed malignant tumor and they can be very easily confused with several dif ferent benign lesions. J Periodontol 1999;70:441‐444.