PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - ASPROUDIS, IOANNIS
AU  - GOREZIS, SPIROS
AU  - ASPIOTIS, MILTIADIS
AU  - TSANOU, ELENA
AU  - KITSIOU, EVANGELIA
AU  - MERMINGA, EFPRAXIA
AU  - PESCHOS, DIMITRIOS
AU  - CHARALABOPOULOS, KONSTANTINOS
AU  - AGNANTIS, NIKI J.
TI  - Orbital Metastasis from Verrucous Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity: Case Report and Review of the Literature
DP  - 2007 Sep 01
TA  - In Vivo
PG  - 909--912
VI  - 21
IP  - 5
4099  - http://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/21/5/909.short
4100  - http://iv.iiarjournals.org/content/21/5/909.full
SO  - In Vivo2007 Sep 01; 21
AB  - A rare case of metastatic verrucous carcinoma (VC) of the oral cavity is presented. The patient was referred to the Ophthalmology Department due to diplopia. The patient reported history of diagnosis of verrucous squamous carcinoma in the oral cavity occuring 6 years earlier that although excised presented several recurrences. The lesion metastasized to local lymph nodes and after being characterized as inoperable the patient underwent thirty-seven sessions of radiation therapy. Two months after completion of radiation therapy, the patient underwent an orbital CT scan that revealed a mass with morphological features consistent with secondary involvement of the orbit from the known VC. Although treated with chemotherapy, the patient died 5 months later. No other case of this entity, which usually presents as a slow-growing lesion enlarging with direct extension rather than frank invasion, metastasizing to the orbit has been reported in relevant literature. Copyright © 2007 International Institute of Anticancer Research (Dr. John G. Delinassios), All rights reserved