Open AccessCarcinoma buccal mucosa with left axillary lymph node metastasis
Author(s) -
Rambha Pandey,
Rituparna Biswas,
Anirban Halder,
Durgatosh Pandey
Publication year - 2019
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/jcrt.jcrt_49_18
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , buccal mucosa , breast cancer , pathology , lymph node , carcinoma , lymph node metastasis , head and neck , buccal administration , lung , cancer , surgery , oral cavity , orthodontics , pharmacology
Head-and-neck squamous cell carcinomas are tumors with propensity mostly for locoregional spread. The most frequent sites of metastasis include lung, bone, liver, adrenal, heart, and kidney. Distant metastasis to axillary lymph nodes from buccal mucosa cancer is extremely rare. To the authors' knowledge, this is the first case reported where a gentleman who was treated for carcinoma right buccal mucosa developed left axillary lymph node metastasis at 6 th year of follow-up.