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Metastatic melanoma involving the left maxillary antrum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Jack E. Meyer ,
William P. Rogers Jr  and
Bruce Leiter
Jack E. Meyer
Affiliation:
Chief of Radiology, Pondville Hospital, Walpole, Mass. 02081 (address for reprint requests); Associate Professor, Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Mass.; Clinical Associate Professor, Radiology, Boston University Medical School.
William P. Rogers Jr
Affiliation:
Visiting Surgeon, Pondville Hospital, Walpole, Mass.; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School.
Bruce Leiter
Affiliation:
Resident in Radiology, Boston University Medical School, Boston, Mass.
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Abstract

Malignant melanoma may metastasize to any anatomic site via the hematogenous route. A patient is described in whom a metastasis developed in the left maxillary antrum and nasal cavity and who received successful palliative surgical and radiotherapeutic treatment.

Metastatic carcinoma involving the paranasal sinuses has been reported most frequently secondary to renal cell tumors, followed by carcinoma of the lung and breast (Jortay, 1971; Robinson, 1973; Friedmann and Osborn, 1965; Bernstein et al., 1966). These tumor deposits are often diagnosed in a setting of diffuse metastatic disease or discovered at post-mortem examination. A patient recently treated at Pondville Hospital had symptomatic metastatic melanoma involving the left maxillary antrum and nasal cavity. Following surgical treat-ment, palliative radiotherapy was successfully delivered on three occasions providing symptomatic relief over the subsequent 17 months prior to the patient's death.

Type
Clinical records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 93 , Issue 10 , October 1979 , pp. 1011 - 1013
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1979

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