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Malignant pleural mesothelioma metastasis to the mandible.

Terakado N, Shintani S, Nakashiro K, Hamakawa H

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Ehime University School of Medicine, Ehime 791-0295, Japan. terakado@m.ehime-u.ac.jp

Malignant mesothelioma is a rare tumor arising from the pleura or peritoneum. Distant hematogenous metastasis is seen in more than half of cases, preferentially to the brain, lung, bone and soft tissues [Br. J. Dis. Chest 70 (1976) 246]. There has been only one previous report of this tumor metastasizing to the jaw bone [Pathologica 92 (2000) 273].

Published 23 November 2004 in Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 33(8): 798-800.
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