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This case report describes a metastatic bronchogenic deposit involving the lower lip and the adjacent bone in the lower incisor region. The presenting symptoms were very similar to those of a dentoalveolar infection and extraction of the lower incisor teeth failed to provide any relief. Comparison of radiographs taken 6 months earlier suggested that the metastatic deposit very probably spread from the lower labial sulcus into a site of periapical infection, involving the lower incisors and the adjacent bone
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Seddon, S., Absi, E. & Shepherd, J. Bronchogenic carcinoma presenting as a periapical infection. Br Dent J 174, 455–458 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4808197
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4808197