Table 1

Brief summary of clinical and pathological data of English reported cases, and of the current case
Author Year	Age/sex	Site of oral mts	Time relation between primary tumor and mts	Diagnosis of primary tumor	Clinical status of primary tumor	Follow up after diagnosis

Lund et al 1968	63/F	Gingiva	Sincronous	CA undiff.	Unresectable	Died in a few days for respiratory failure
Astacio et al 1969	58/M	Retromolar area	Sincronous	CA grade 3 with signet-ring cells	Resectable	Died in sixth post-oper. day for renal failure
Lopez et al 1976	65/F	Gingiva	3 weeks before primary	CA grade 3	Unresectable	Died in a few days for heart and renal failure
Arjona et al 1989	65/M	Soft palate	5 months before primary	CA nos	Unresectable	Died in a few days for cardio-pulmonary failure
Florio et al 1995	66/M	Hard palate	3 months after primary	CA grade 2	Unresectable	Died in a few days for complications
Shimoyama et al 2004	56/M	Gingiva	15 months after primary	CA grade 3 with signet-ring cells	Resectable	Died two months later for cancer
Current case	61/F	Hard palate and gingiva	7 months before primary	CA undiff. with signet-ring cells	Resectable	Died in tenth post-oper. day for heart failure

mts: metastasis; CA: gastric carcinoma; nos: not otherwise specified
Colombo et al. BMC Cancer 2005 5:117 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-5-117