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Gingival Metastasis from Rectal Cancer

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We report a 51-year-old woman who had undergone surgical resection of Dukes’B rectal cancer. On postoperative day 30, she noticed a dark red swelling in the right upper gingival, for which immunohistochemical study of the biopsy specimen revealed metastasis from the rectal cancer.

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  1. Masahiko Kawamura

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  1. Department of Surgery, The Kawaguchi City Medical Center, Saitama, Japan

    Yukio Nakabayashi & Masahiko Otsuka

  2. Department of Pathology, The Kawaguchi City Medical Center, Saitama, Japan

    Hitomi Sakata

  3. Department of Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

    Masahiko Kawamura & Katsuhiko Yanaga

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Kawamura, M., Nakabayashi, Y., Otsuka, M. et al. Gingival Metastasis from Rectal Cancer. J Gastrointest Surg 12, 1121–1122 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-007-0401-y

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