Bilateral synchronous submandibular lumps in a patient with gastric carcinoma.
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.
Böckmann
Roland A
RA
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Bochum, Germany. roland.boeckmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Schulz
Tim
T
Stein
Henning
H
Mielke
Eckhart
E
Dengler
Kathrin
K
Wolff
Klaus-Dietrich
KD
Nolte
Dirk
D
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