Rectal localization of metastatic lobular breast cancer: report of a case.
case_report · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 11289296.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
The incidence of extrahepatic gastrointestinal metastases from breast cancer is reported in the literature only as necroscopy studies (6-18 percent); they usually originate from lobular or a mixed ductal-lobular subtype. Nonspecific presenting symptoms, death of the patients caused by other more frequent metastases, and variable radiographic features mimicking primary neoplasms cause a clinical underestimation of this pathology. We report here a case of rectal metastasis from a lobular carcinoma eight years after mastectomy.
Medical subject headings
- Breast Neoplasms
- Carcinoma, Lobular
- Rectal Neoplasms