caa a22 4500 386345252 CHVBK 20180307111809.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022215100108540 doi S0022215100108540 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022215100108540 Breast metastasis from a pharyngeal carcinoma [Elektronische Daten] The reported incidence of metastatic disease in head and neck cancer is increasing. The most common site of metastatic involvement in squamous carcinoma of the head and neck is the lung followed by liver, mediastinal nodes and bone. The breast is rarely infiltrated by metastatic disease, 2 per cent or less of clinically detected breast lumps being of nonmammary origin, most frequently malignant melanoma, lymphoma/leukaemia and primary lung carcinoma. A 73-year-old female presented with a primary posterior pharyngeal wall squamous carcinoma and bilateral enlarged neck nodes. She developed an isolated breast metastasis while receiving palliative radiotherapy and died seven months after presentation. Clinically detected breast metastasis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma was first documented by Toombs and Kalisher in 1977. This is the first report of such a case originating in the posterior pharyngeal wall. The prognosis is invariably poor. Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1989 Nunez D. A. Department of Otolaryngology; Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF Sutherland C. G. C. Department of pathology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF Sood R. K. Department of Otolaryngology, Ayr County Hospital Ayr KA7 3AY The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/2(1989-02), 227-228 0022-2151 103:2<227 1989 103 JLO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100108540 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 other jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022215100108540 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nunez D. A. Department of Otolaryngology; Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sutherland C. G. C. Department of pathology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sood R. K. Department of Otolaryngology, Ayr County Hospital Ayr KA7 3AY NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Laryngology & Otology Cambridge University Press 103/2(1989-02), 227-228 0022-2151 103:2<227 1989 103 JLO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge