Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus: a case of solitary metastasis to the tongue

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Hafiz S. Patwa Edward A. Levine Gabriela M Devries George Yacoub Omer A Hassan

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Edward A. Levine
Departments of General Surgery (Surgical Oncology), Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University School of Medicine

A B S T R A C T

Malignant neoplasms that metastasize to the head and neck remain a rare occurrence. Metastatic lesions to the tongue are even more rarely encountered. The majority of the few reported cases have primary sites in the lung, breast, and kidney. Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus with isolated metastasis to the tongue is a unique occurrence with only a handful of cases with other extensive metastases ever reported. Herein we present the case of a patient with adenocarcinoma of the distal third esophagus who underwent a neoadjuvant therapy followed by margin negative esophageal resection, including negative lymph nodes, who subsequently presented with a solitary distant metastasis to the tongue.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Tue 21, Aug 2018
Accepted: Fri 07, Sep 2018
Published: Fri 26, Oct 2018

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© 2023 Edward A. Levine. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2018.03.003