Jiménez Y*. Metástasis oral por cáncer de esófago [Oral metastasis in esophagus cancer]. Med Oral 2004;9:182.
* Profesora Asociada Medicina Bucal. Universidad de Valencia. España

CLINICAL CASE: A 50 year old male. Smoker of 2 packets a day, and habitual drinker. Unprotected sexual enconters. Very nervous. High blood pressure. Alcoholic hepatitis.

Currently he is an inpatient for an esophagus cancer (fig 1). He is under supervision for septic mouth referred from oncology. On a first intraoral examination we appreciate a septic mouth with multiple caries, periodontal disease and a lesion found on the floor of the mouth of 1.5 cm, erythroplasica, with whitish areas, hard of the touch, asyntomatic, without accurate period of development (fig 2,3). No cervical lymph nodes. We carry out a biopsy.

Diagnóstico

Oral metastasis in patient with esophagus cancer