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Pancreatic Tumor Metastasis in the Tongue: Case Report
Bárbara Capitanio de Souza1, Rita Fabiane Teixeira Gomes1, Pedro Guilherme Schaefer2 and Maria Cristina Munerato1,2*1Faculty of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
2Hospital Porto Alegre Clinics (HCPA), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Corresponding Author:
- Maria Cristina Munerato
Faculty of Dentistry - UFRGS
Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2492
Department of Conservative Dentistry, Ramiro Barcelos, 90035-003, RS, Brazil
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E-mail: mcmunerato@gmail.com
Received date: April 20, 2016; Accepted date: May 23, 2016; Published date: May 28, 2016
Citation: De Souza BC, Gomes RFT, Schaefer PG, Munerato MC (2016) Pancreatic Tumor Metastasis in the Tongue: Case Report. J Interdiscipl Med Dent Sci 4:200. doi: 10.4172/2376-032X.1000200
Copyright: © 2016 De Souza BC, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Accounting for only about 1% of all oral malignant lesions, metastatic tumors in the oral and maxillofacial region are relatively rare. More specifically, prevalence of these tumors in the tongue is even smaller, only 0.2%. Pancreatic cancer rarely metastasizes in this region. This case report describes the diagnosis of a malignant pancreatic tumor that metastasized to the tongue. Clinical manifestations are discussed in light of the rare nature and severity of this tumor.
