[Tansitional vesical cell carcinoma metastatizing to the sphenoid sinus].
Secundary tumors of the paranasal sinus are very uncommon with only one hundred cases reported in the literature up to 2001. The commonest site of the primary tumor is the kidney. The maxillary sinus is most often involved. The Sphenoid sinus is the rarest site. We report a rare case of metastasis to the sphenoid sinces from a transitional cell bladder tumor in a 69-year-old man who died after treatment with chemotherapy and we also review the liteature.
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D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D013101:Sphenoid Sinus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*