Abstract
A 66-year-old, dark-skinned female patient attended the stomatology service due to the presence of a tumoral lesion in the sinuses on the right side with a 4-month evolution. She had painful symptoms, nasal congestion, and discharge. The patient was neither a smoker nor an alcoholic. Clinically, the extraoral examination revealed an expressive facial asymmetry, firm palpation, and the presence of yellowish discharge draining. Intraorally, there was an increase in volume in the vestibule mucosa, with its erasure and firm consistency. A cone beam computed tomography was requested and showed aggressive, irregular growth with resorption of the cortical cortex of the maxillary sinus and invasion maxillary sinus. Therefore, an incisional biopsy was performed. The anatomopathologic examination revealed a squamous cell carcinoma. The patient was referred to the oncology service and was being treated with radiotherapy due to the impossibility of surgical resection, but 9 months after the diagnosis, the patient died.
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