Tongue metastasis from a poorly differentiated urothelial carcinoma of the bladder

Solitary Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis From Bladder Cancer Detected by FDG PET/CT

ABSTRACT

Solitary axillary lymph node metastasis from bladder cancer is rare. A 65-year-old woman with a history of bladder urothelial carcinoma presented to our hospital with an axillary mass. No abnormal lesion in FDG PET/CT was identified except a solitary soft tissue mass with significant FDG uptake in the right axilla. Puncture pathology of the mass confirmed the metastasis of differentiated urothelial carcinoma.

Mandibular metastasis from carcinoma of the bladder: Report of a case and literature review

Metastases represent about 1% of all malignant tumors of the oral region. Only 12 cases of metastases to the jawbones and 3 to the oral soft tissues from a carcinoma of the bladder are reported in the English literature. Here we report a case of an 86 year-old man with a metastasis to the anterior region of the lower jaw from a transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder treated 5 years before, all-together with a literature review. Key words:Bladder, mandibular metastasis, oral metastasis, transitional cell carcinoma.

High-grade urothelial carcinoma with squamous differentiation metastasizing to the tongue

Tumors metastasizing to the head and neck region are uncommon. Metastasis of urothelial carcinoma to the maxillofacial region is exceedingly rare and mostly involves the jaw. We present a case of urothelial carcinoma metastasizing to the tongue. Immunohistochemistry in conjunction with fluorescent in situ hybridization was used to confirm the relation between the primary and metastatic lesions, making it the first such reported case employing the UroVysion (Catalogue number 02 J27-025, Abbott Molecular Inc., Des Plaines, IL, USA) fluorescent in situ hybridization probe in a metastatic lesion in the head and neck region.