JOURNAL OF CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY, cilt.22, sa.2, ss.736-737, 2011 (SCI-Expanded)
Temporalis muscle metastasis of a tumor is a rare condition. Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma is an uncommon variant of squamous cell carcinoma, which often occurs in the aerodigestive tract. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no previous reports dealing with temporalis muscle metastasis from esophageal carcinoma in the literature.