Open AccessRenal cell carcinoma presenting with oral tongue metastasis: A rare case presentation
Author(s) -
Alok K. Ray,
Jayanta Bhattacharya,
Samrat Ganguly
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.110392
Subject(s) - tongue , medicine , renal cell carcinoma , metastasis , presentation (obstetrics) , tongue neoplasm , carcinoma , pathology , rare disease , head and neck , kidney , disease , cancer , radiology , surgery
Renal cell carcinoma is the most frequent kidney neoplasm, with a high tendency to metastasize. The occurrence of renal carcinoma metastasis to the head and neck region is extremely rare. Here we present one such case where the tongue metastasis was the initial presenting feature of disease.