Diagnostic Dilemma in a Rare Jaw Metastasis: A Case Report

Malignant tumors that have metastasized to the oral and maxillofacial region from distant sites account for only 1% of all malignancies of the jaw. These metastasize most often to the mandibular molar region. The commonest primary sources of metastatic tumors found in the oral and maxillofacial region are the lung, kidney and prostate gland for the males, and the breast, genital organs and kidneys for females. Uterine cervix cancer is the second most common female cancer and the third most common cause of female cancer mortality. The tumor spreads into the surrounding tissues by direct infiltration, but hematogenous dissemination is relatively unusual and the involvement of oral and maxillofacial region is extremely rare in gynecological cancer. Here a case of a 45-year-old woman is presented, who had a lesion of sunburst type appearance radiographically and poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma histologically involving the maxillofacial region, which metastasized from uterus cervix.