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Bilateral synchronous submandibular lumps in a patient with gastric carcinoma
Roland A Böckmann1, Tim Schulz, Henning Stein
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Plastic Surgery, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Knappschaftskrankenhaus, Bochum, Germany. roland.boeckmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Abstract:
This case report deals with a patient who was readmitted with a bilateral submandibular swelling after having received primary surgery due to gastric adenocarcinoma 6 months before. After bilateral submandibulectomy both glands were diagnosed histopathologically as metastasis of adenocarcinoma. This is the rare case of a submandibular gland metastasis and the first case of a bilateral synchronous submandibular gland metastasis from gastric carcinoma.