title: Bilateral synchronous submandibular lumps in a patient with gastric carcinoma.
abstract: This case report deals with a patient who was readmitted with a bilateral submandibular swelling after having received primary surgery due to gastric adenocarcinoma 6 months before. After bilateral submandibulectomy both glands were diagnosed histopathologically as metastasis of adenocarcinoma. This is the rare case of a submandibular gland metastasis and the first case of a bilateral synchronous submandibular gland metastasis from gastric carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Bochum, Germany. roland.boeckmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
authors.forename: Roland A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Böckmann
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Henning
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: Eckhart
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mielke
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dengler
authors.forename: Klaus-Dietrich
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Wolff
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nolte
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013365:Submandibular Gland Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery