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Table 1 Previous case reports of lingual metastasis from renal cell carcinoma

From: Lingual metastasis as an initial presentation of renal cell carcinoma: a case report

Author/year

Age/sex

Presentation

Other metastases

Treatment

Survival (months)

Novák et al., 2009 [9]

63/F

History of nephrectomy for RCC 7 years previously.

Mass on the tongue

Not known

Not known

Not known

Altinel et al., 2010 [4]

67/M

Tongue lesion

None

Excision. Nephrectomy. Interferon-alpha

Not known (alive)

Wadasadawala et al., 2011 [10]

48/M

History of nephrectomy and radiotherapy for RCC.

Dysphagia and dysphonia and mass on the tongue 5 years later

Adrenals, lungs, mediastinum, vhbone

Radiotherapy

Not known (alive)

Morvan et al., 2011 [11]

48/M

History of nephrectomy 3 years previously.

Mass on the tongue

Left surrenal, L5 vertebra and left submandibular adenopathy

Excision. Radiation therapy on L5.

Sunitinib

60 (alive)

Yoshitomi et al., 2011 [12]

47/M

No history of malignant disease.

A lump on the tongue

Adrenal gland, pleura, lungs

Nephrectomy.

Excision.

Interferon.

Sunitinib and sorafenib later

24 (alive)

Ghazali et al., 2012 [13]

64/F

History of nephrectomy for RCC 14 years previously.

Lump on the tongue

Contralateral kidney

Excision

5

Tunio et al., 2012 [14]

35/M

History of nephrectomy for RCC.

Painless swelling in right lateral tongue

Lung

Excision.

Radiotherapy.

Intra-oral

electron therapy.

Sunitinib

Unknown

Novák et al., 2012 [15]

63/F

History of nephrectomy for RCC 7 years earlier.

Mass on the tongue

None

Cryosurgical therapy

12

Ganini et al., 2012 [16]

70/M

History of nephrectomy for RCC.

16 years later, lesion of the hemi-tongue

Adrenals, lymph nodes, lung and bone, skin

Embolization of the left lingual artery

1

Balliram et al., 2012 [17]

72/M

Painless lesion of the tongue

Lung

Nephrectomy

3

Ray et al., 2013 [3]

65/M

Lesion of the tongue with history of reddish discoloration of urine

Para-aortic lymphadenopathy, psoas muscle and right dome of diaphragm

Excision.

Radiotherapy.

Sunitinib

Not known

Mazeron et al., 2013 [18]

66/M

Tongue lesion

None

Nephrectomy.

Sunitinib.

Brachytherapy

41

Matias et al., 2013 [19]

47/M

Nephrectomy for RCC, metastasis 2 months later.

Lungs, brain, liver, bone, lymph nodes

Temsirolimus followed by sunitinib.

Surgical excision and sorafenib

Not known

Abbaszadeh-Bidokhty et al., 2014 [6]

80/M

History of nephrectomy for RCC 4 years previously.

Swelling on the tongue

None

Surgical excision. Sunitinib followed by sorafenib

6 (alive)

Khobragade et al., 2014 [20]

63/M

Swelling over dorsal surface of tongue with difficulty in swallowing

Lungs

Nephrectomy.

Excision.

Sunitinib

Not known

Altuntaş et al., 2015 [21]

70/M

Renal mass

Lungs, lymph nodes, bone

Interferon alpha followed by partial glossectomy and sunitinib after progression

7 (alive)

Wang et al., 2016 [22]

71/F

History of nephrectomy 10 years previously.

Tumor on the tongue

Hilar lymph node, lungs

Sunitinib

10 (alive)

Lieder et al., 2017 [23]

56/unknown

Nephrectomy for RCC.

Mass of tongue

Lung, bones, mediastinal nodes, soft tissue of the finger

Excision radiotherapy

3

  1. F female, M male, RCC renal cell carcinoma