title: Orofacial pain and numb chin syndrome as the presenting symptoms of a metastatic prostate cancer.
abstract: We describe a patient with orofacial pain as the presenting symptom caused by a mandibular metastasis from a previously undiagnosed cancer of the prostate. This possibility should be considered in the differential diagnosis of male patients presenting with orofacial pain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. gaver@bezeqint.net
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaver
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Polliack
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pilo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hertz
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kitai
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D005157:Facial Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*