|
KMID : 0390220120230010105
|
|
Journal of Clinical Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
2012 Volume.23 No. 1 p.105 ~ p.109
|
|
|
A Case of Facial Paralysis Caused by Metastatic Breast Carcinoma
|
|
Lee Jong-Min
Jung Kwang-Tae
Soh Un-Ki
Han Ju-Hee
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
Metastasis to the temporal bone is rare. Tumors of breast, lung, kidney, gastrointestinal track, larynx, and prostate gland are the most common site of temporal bone metastasis. The pathogenesis of spread to the temporal bone is most commonly by the hematogenous route. Here is a report on a case of breast carcinoma presenting with facial paralysis for 1 week and ear fullness for 1 month. The patient was initially diagnosed as Bell’s palsy, and later the clinical impression was revised to metastatic breast carcinoma to temporal bone, based on the pathologic finding. Metastatic disease should be considered as a possible etiology in patient with a clinical history of malignant neoplasms presenting with facial nerve paralysis.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Breast cancer, Temporal bones, Facial paralysis
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|