Gingival metastasis from rectal cancer.
We report a 51-year-old woman who had undergone surgical resection of Dukes'B rectal cancer. On postoperative day 30, she noticed a dark red swelling in the right upper gingival, for which immunohistochemical study of the biopsy specimen revealed metastasis from the rectal cancer.
Kawamura
Masahiko
M
Department of Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. masahiko7877@jikei.ac.jp
Nakabayashi
Yukio
Y
Otsuka
Masahiko
M
Sakata
Hitomi
H
Yanaga
Katsuhiko
K
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005887:Gingival Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*