Volume 16, Number 3, September 2004
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Mahfudz Zakaria,1 Kelvin Lim Lye Hock2
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, and 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, National University of Malaysia Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Abstract
Metastatic tumour to the mandible is relatively uncommon. This report is of a patient with renal cell carcinoma metastatic to the right mandible, left scapula, left humerus, and lungs following previous left nephrectomy. The patient subsequently underwent palliative radiotherapy for pain relief secondary to the bone metastases.
Key words: Head and neck neoplasms, Metastasis, Renal cell carcinoma Asian J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2004;16:189-194.
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