ORAL METASTASIS FROM HYPERNEPHROMA*

Abstract

A bstract A case of hypernephroma (renal‐cell carcinoma) with oral metastasis is presented. The patient was a 77‐year‐old man who returned to his physician with a painful mass on his tongue three weeks after a left nephrectomy. He was subsequently referred to the authors with a tentative diagnosis of squamous‐cell carcinoma of the tongue. The mass could have been mistaken for another primary tumor but biopsy revealed metastatic hypernephroma. The reporting of cases such as this may help the clinician in the diagnosis of unusual metastatic lesions.