Abstract
RATIONALE
Tongue metastasis from lung cancer is extremely rare, and the prognosis of these patients is rather poor.
PATIENT CONCERS
A 56-year-old man was found a 4-cm cavity lesion in the left upper lobe, which was initially misdiagnosed as tuberculosis.
DIAGNOSES
A case of lung squamous cell carcinoma that metastasized to the base of a patient's tongue.
INTERVATIONS
We send the biopsy of the lung and the tongue lesions for gene sequencing.
OUTCOMES
He received systemic chemotherapy, but continued to have pain at the base of his tongue and died 7 months later.
LESSONS
From sequencing data, mutations in KRAS proto-oncogene, GTPase (KRAS), phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase catalytic subunit alpha (PIK3CA), and tumor protein p53 (TP53) were found in the tumor biopsy of the patient. All of these were indicators of poor prognosis.
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