Author(s)

Tadanobu Aragaki¹, Yasuyuki Michi², Shin Nakamura³, Akira Toriihara⁴, Kou Kayamori³, Kiyoshi Harada², Tohru Kurabayashi³

¹Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gunma Prefectural Cancer Center, Gunma, Japan.
²Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gunma Prefectural Cancer Center, Gunma, Japan.
²Section of Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
³Section of Oral Radiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
³Section of Oral Radiology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan 4Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Oncology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.
⁴Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Oncology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan.

We experienced a case of oral squamous cell carcinoma of the mandible with scattered distant metastases. After neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, the patient underwent segmental resection of the right mandible and right radical neck dissection. Surgical specimens confirmed remarkable nodal metastases. Unfortunately, the patient experienced a rapid fatal outcome, and numerous distant metastases were detected on autopsy. Moreover, postoperative 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose- positron emission tomography/computed tomography detected systemic distant metastases in this case. In our opinion, the use of preoperative FDG-PET/CT should be considered for patients with suspected poor prognoses.

Oral Cancer, Distant Metastasis, PET/CT, Autopsy, Vascular Invasion

Aragaki, T. , Michi, Y. , Nakamura, S. , Toriihara, A. , Kayamori, K. , Harada, K. and Kurabayashi, T. (2014) A Case of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma with Scattered Metastases. Open Journal of Radiology, 4, 270-274. doi: 10.4236/ojrad.2014.43035.