Carcinoma of the prostate metastatic to the maxillary antrum

✍ Scribed by Har-El, Gady ;Avidor, Irena ;Weisbord, Arie ;Sidi, Jack

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1987
• Weight: 281 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-6403
• DOI: 10.1002/hed.2890100109

✦ Synopsis

Metastatic carcinoma of the maxillary antrum is an extreme rarity. Until 1980, less than 100 cases with distant primaries metastatic to the entire sinonasal tract had been reported. In a review of these cases, we found no mention of primary prostate cancer metastatic to the antrum. The purpose of this paper is to document the first case of this entity. HEAD & NECK SURGERY 1055-58,1987

Cancer, in general, and malignancies below the clavicle, in particular, rarely metastasize to the maxillary a n t r ~m . l -~

The incidence of head and neck metastases from genitourinary neoplasms was discussed by Flocks and Boatman,' who found head and neck dissemination in 15 of their 1,500 prostatic cancer patients (1%). Most of the cases had cervical lymph node metastases: none of them had maxillary sinus metastases.

CASE REPORT

A 77-year-old man was admitted to the Department of Otolaryngology because of right exoph-Acknowledgment The authors are grateful to Mrs Sidi Stern for her assistance in the processing of the special histochemistry From the