Airway obstruction due to metastatic renal cell carcinoma to the tongue.
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.
Torres-Carranza
Eusebio
E
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Virgen del Rocio Hospital, Seville, Spain.
Garcia-Perla
Alberto
A
Infante-Cossio
Pedro
P
Belmonte-Caro
Rodolfo
R
Loizaga-Iriondo
Juan-Maria
JM
Gutierrez-Perez
Jose-Luis
JL
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