Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Distant metastases of a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue in peripheral skeletal muscles and adjacent soft tissues | Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Case report Open Access Distant metastases of a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue in peripheral skeletal muscles and adjacent soft tissues Ralf Smeets 1 2 Maurice B Grosjean3 4 Max Heiland5 Dieter Riediger1 and Oliver Maciejewski1 Address University Hospital Aachen Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Aachen Germany 2RWTH Aachen University Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research IZKF BIOMAT Aachen Germany 3University Hospital Basel Department of Reconstructive Surgery Division of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery Basel Switzerland 4University of Basel Center of Multidisciplinary Research in Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery Hightech-Forschungs-Zentrum HFZ Basel Switzerland and 5University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Hamburg Germany Email Ralf Smeets - rasmeets@ Maurice B Grosjean - mbgrosjean@ Max Heiland - heiland@ Dieter Riediger - driediger@ Oliver Maciejewski - omaciejewski@ Corresponding author Published 26 March 2008 Received 21 November 2007 . I mzzi-rzz IZASZ A 1 Accepted 26 March 2008 Head Face Medicine 2008 4 7 doi l 746-I60X-4-7 This article is available from http content 4 1 7 2008 Smeets et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract A 66-year-old female patient was admitted to our department with a large tumor of the tongue measuring 10 cm in diameter. The tumor occupied nearly the entire oral cavity and showed exophytic and ulcerative areas. Histological analysis revealed a low grade squamous cell carcinoma SCC of the tongue. Bilateral enlarged cervical lymphatic masses were also present. The extent of the tumor .
