Metastatic large cell lung cancer presenting with numb chin syndrome
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Orofacial pain and numb chin syndrome as the presenting symptoms of a metastatic prostate cancer.
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CLINICAL HISTORY This 67-year-old man was seen in neurological consultation with a 10-day history of numbness and tingling of the right chin which was intermittent for the first 3 days and then constant for one week. The chin could also be intermittently painful with an intensity ranging from 7 to 9/10 especially with chewing. He had no headache, speech disturbance, dysphagia, visual disturbanc...
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Numb chin syndrome reflects an abnormality in the mental nerve or inferior alveolar nerve, or occasionally in a nervous structure located higher up in the body. It manifests as objective and/or subjective sensory disorders in the distribution of the mental nerve or inferior alveolar nerve, represented primarily by half of the lower lip and chin. Although numb chin syndrome falls mainly within t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/s0954-6111(97)90044-5