Table 1.

Previous case reports of renal cell carcinoma metastasizing to tongue

S No	Author.	Year	Age/sex	Site	Other metastases
1	Kostenko	1911	43/M
2	Coenen	1914	62/F
3	McNattin & Dean	1931	58/M		Lung, heart, skin
4	Trinca & Willis	1936	57/M
5	Schrag	1945	34/M		Lung
6	Del Carmen	1970	77/M		None
7	Satomi et al.	1974	41/F	Left surface	Lung
8	Friedlander	1979	84/M	Tip of tongue	Lung
9	Fitzgerald	1982	63/M	Right dorsum	Brain
10	Kitao et al.	1986	37/M	BOT	None
11	Inai	1987	42/M	Left base	Lung
12	Matsumota & Lio	1987	77/F	Left surface	Lung
13	Kapoor	1987	70/M	Not mentioned	Not mentioned
14	Madsion & Fereson	1988	63/M	Right ventral surface	Lung, liver
15	Ishikawa	1991	59/F		Lung, bone
16	Okabe et al.	1992	58/M	Left base	Lung, brain
15	Shibyama	1993	41/M	BOT	Lung, bone, lymph nodes
16	Ziyada	1994	59/M	Right base	None
17	Aguirre	1996	82/F	Tip of tongue	Brain
18	Airoldi	1995	51/M		Lung
19	Konya	1997	59/M		Para-aortic, lymph nodes
20	Tomita	1998	50/M	Left border	Lung, brain, skin
21	Goel	1999	62/M	Left surface	Lung
22	Navarro et al.	2000	62/M	Right lateral	Lung
23	Fukuda	2002	74/M	Left side
24	Mariomi et al.	2002	87/F	Dorsum	Lung, liver, thyroid, pancreas
25	Emer et al.	2003	45/M	Tip of tongue	Nose, lungs
26	Kyan & Kato	2004	66/M	Base of tongue	Lungs
27	Torres-Carranza	2006	49/F	Middle third of dorsum	Lungs
28	Huang & Chang	2006	76/F	BOT	Lungs, liver
29	Present case	2007	68/M	Anterior right lateral	Lungs, bone

BOT, base of tongue.