Osteoblastic metastasis from breast affecting the condyle misinterpreted as temporomandibular joint disorder
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Osteoblastic metastasis from breast affecting the condyle misinterpreted as temporomandibular joint disorder.
Sir, Despite the low incidence of metastases in jaw bones compared with the rest of the skeleton, metastases are important because of the poor prognosis they carry. Their presence can indicate a yet unknown lesion, a disseminated cancer, or recurrence of the disease.[1] We report a case of a metastatic adenocarcinoma of the breast to the mandible affecting the condyle showing a unique radiologi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Cancer
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0019-509X
DOI: 10.4103/0019-509x.82877