Tonsillar metastasis of small cell lung carcinoma |
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| Authors: | Meftun Unsal Gokhan Kutlar Yurdanur Sullu Sirin Yurtlu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Chest, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuzmayis University, Samsun, Turkey;2. Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuzmayis University, Samsun, Turkey;3. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ondokuzmayis University, Samsun, Turkey;4. Department of Chest, Sinop State Hospital, Sinop, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | computed tomography lymphatic metastasis small cell lung carcinoma tonsillar neoplasm |
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