title: Airway obstruction due to metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the tongue.
abstract: Metastatic lesions in the tongue are extremely rare. Renal cell carcinoma is the most frequent kidney neoplasm, with a high tendency to metastasize. It is the third most frequent neoplasm to metastasize to the head and neck region. We report a case of a rapidly enlarging tongue metastasis causing airway obstruction in a patient with widespread disease. Local excision was the elected treatment to provide palliation of the obstruction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Virgen del Rocio Hospital, Seville, Spain.
authors.forename: Eusebio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Torres-Carranza
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Garcia-Perla
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Infante-Cossio
authors.forename: Rodolfo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Belmonte-Caro
authors.forename: Juan-Maria
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Loizaga-Iriondo
authors.forename: Jose-Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Gutierrez-Perez
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery