title: [Pulmonary adenocarcinoma with facial nerve palsy as the first sign of onset due to a metastatic temporal bone tumor].
abstract: A 70-year-old woman was admitted because of left facial nerve palsy. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed a mass lesion with a well-enhanced margin in the left temporal bone. A computed tomographic scan of the chest showed a lung mass in the left lower lobe, which was thereafter diagnosed as adenocarcinoma. An immunohistochemical examination of the tissue specimen obtained from the left temporal bone revealed evidence of metastatic adenocarcinoma from the lung. No other metastatic lesions including separate site of bone were seen. This is a very rare case of lung cancer with facial nerve palsy as the first sign of onset due to a metastatic temporal bone tumor.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine (Internal Medicine 2), Oita University Hospital.
authors.forename: Naoko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kai
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: Ryotaro
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morinag
authors.forename: Hisako
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sonoda
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Oka
authors.forename: Yuka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Amemiya
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iwata
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Otani
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Umeki
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sakashita
authors.forename: Jun-ichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kadota
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000556:secondary; D000368:Aged; D005158:Facial Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000556:secondary*; D013701:Temporal Bone