Occult prostate carcinoma with metastasis to the mandible presenting as numb chin syndrome

Upasana Sethi Ahuja; Devi Charan Shetty; Akshay Rathore; Manu Dhillon

doi:10.1016/j.jobcr.2021.04.007

Occult prostate carcinoma with metastasis to the mandible presenting as numb chin syndrome

J Oral Biol Craniofac Res. 2021 Jul-Sep;11(3):393-395. doi: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2021.04.007. Epub 2021 May 1.

Authors

Upasana Sethi Ahuja¹, Devi Charan Shetty², Akshay Rathore¹, Manu Dhillon¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, I.T.S Dental College, Ghaziabad, UP, India.
² Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, I.T.S Dental College, Ghaziabad, UP, India.

Abstract

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death due to malignancy in men. Occult malignancy presenting with no primary symptoms could be a challenge to the diagnostician. Metastasis of prostate carcinoma to the mandible is rare and usually presents with non-specific symptoms. Only 1% of oral cancers account for lesions which present as metastasis of other primary malignancies. We report a rare case of prostate carcinoma being diagnosed as metastasis to the mandible with the patient presenting with numb chin syndrome.

Keywords: Cone beam computed tomography; Jaw metastasis; Numb chin syndrome; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen.