Metastases from oral squamous cell carcinoma usually occur in the cervical lymph nodes.
Distant skeletal muscle metastases are exceedingly rare and have been reported only
in sporadic cases. A 70-year-old male patient was diagnosed with nonmetastatic oral
squamous cell carcinoma (pT4a, N0, M0). The patient underwent successful surgical
treatment involving tumor resection and selective neck dissection of both sides, including
adjuvant radiotherapy. After 3 years of uneventful course, with no clinical or radiographic
evidence for local recurrence or metastasis, an isolated distant metastasis in the
gluteal muscles was diagnosed. The patient died 7 months after diagnosis despite further
surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy. Distant metastases are mostly accompanied
by systemic spread of tumor cells. Thus, the prognosis is generally very poor. The
therapeutic concept of surgical tumor resection and adjuvant chemotherapy failed to
significantly improve the patient's prognosis in the present case.
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Publication history
Published online: August 31, 2018
Accepted:
August 22,
2018
Received in revised form:
August 15,
2018
Received:
May 5,
2018
Footnotes
The study presented here was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethics Committee of the University of Tübingen, Germany, and with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
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