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Maxillofacial metastasis from breast cancer

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PAN AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue -, Pages -

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AFRICAN FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY NETWORK-AFENET
DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2014.19.156.4948

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Breast cancer; maxillofacial; metastasis

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Metastatic tumors to paranasal sinuses are exclusively rare. In this paper, we report acase of breast carcinoma metastasizing to the right maxilla. The metastasis occurred 5 years after radical mastectomy and presented as a primary sinonasalmass. The diagnosis was confirmed with histopathologic andimmunohistochemical examination however the patient died before starting any specific treatment because of tumor bleeding.

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