Abstract
Around 1 % of oral cancers are metastases from distant sites. Tumor metastases to the jaw bones are uncommon and are most likely to arise from primary lung, breast, prostate or kidney tumors. Jaw bone metastases from a primary esophageal adenocarcinoma are especially rare, with only 7 reports published in the literature. Here, we describe a case of a 69 year-old male patient where 7 years elapsed between the diagnosis and successful treatment of a poorly differentiated, stage pT2N0 primary esophageal adenocarcinoma and re-presentation with jaw pain due to a metastatic mandibular deposit. The morphological appearance of the metastasis and immunohistochemical positivity with CK20, CK7 and CDX2 strongly supported an adenocarcinoma of upper gastrointestinal tract origin. This case is of particular interest as there is an unusually long time between the detection of the primary esophageal adenocarcinoma and diagnosis of metastatic disease. The longest period of time we have found for this in the literature is 9 months, although it is also reported that some oral metastases may appear more than 10 years following the primary tumor diagnosis.
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Lawes, K.P., Danford, M. & Di Palma, S. Delayed Metastasis to the Mandible of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma. Head and Neck Pathol 7, 416–420 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12105-013-0450-3
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