Tonsillar metastasis of small cell lung carcinoma

Ünsal M., Kutlar G., Süllü Y., Yurtlu S.

CLINICAL RESPIRATORY JOURNAL, cilt.10, sa.6, ss.681-683, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 10 Sayı: 6
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/crj.12275
  • Dergi Adı: CLINICAL RESPIRATORY JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.681-683
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: computed tomography, lymphatic metastasis, small cell lung carcinoma, tonsillar neoplasm
  • Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Metastasis to palatine tonsils are rare, accounting from only 0.8% of all tonsillar tumors, so far only 100 cases reported in the English literature. Only a few cases have been reported for small cell and non-small cell lung cancer as a primary site. With a diagnosis of small cell lung cancer, a 68-year-old male patient relapsed after six cycles of chemotherapy in tonsilla palatina and cervical lymph nodes. Patients died 26 months after being diagnosed with lung cancer and 2 months after detection of tonsil metastasis. We present the current case report because of the rarity of metastasis to tonsil in lung cancer.