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A Unique Endoscopic Presentation of Colon Metastases From Primary Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast

Breast cancer is the leading cause of female malignancy-associated death worldwide. The most common sites of metastases are the lung, liver, brain, and skeleton. A 68-year-old female with invasive lobular carcinoma metastatic to the axial skeleton was found to have new skin and colonic metastases di...

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Autores principales: Martino, Brendan R, Mank, Victoria, Mignano, Salvatore, Neubert, Zachary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10199746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37213975
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37896
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author Martino, Brendan R
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description Breast cancer is the leading cause of female malignancy-associated death worldwide. The most common sites of metastases are the lung, liver, brain, and skeleton. A 68-year-old female with invasive lobular carcinoma metastatic to the axial skeleton was found to have new skin and colonic metastases discovered on serial surveillance positron emission tomography-computed tomography scans. The colonic metastases did not present with any gastrointestinal symptoms and did not form exophytic masses, which are typically associated. Instead, her colonic metastases presented as unusual diaphragm-like strictures within the left colon discovered on endoscopy, which is a relatively rare phenomenon. This case raises awareness of and elucidates new manners of presentation of metastatic invasive lobular carcinoma within the colon.
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spelling pubmed-101997462023-05-21 A Unique Endoscopic Presentation of Colon Metastases From Primary Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Martino, Brendan R Mank, Victoria Mignano, Salvatore Neubert, Zachary Cureus Internal Medicine Breast cancer is the leading cause of female malignancy-associated death worldwide. The most common sites of metastases are the lung, liver, brain, and skeleton. A 68-year-old female with invasive lobular carcinoma metastatic to the axial skeleton was found to have new skin and colonic metastases discovered on serial surveillance positron emission tomography-computed tomography scans. The colonic metastases did not present with any gastrointestinal symptoms and did not form exophytic masses, which are typically associated. Instead, her colonic metastases presented as unusual diaphragm-like strictures within the left colon discovered on endoscopy, which is a relatively rare phenomenon. This case raises awareness of and elucidates new manners of presentation of metastatic invasive lobular carcinoma within the colon. Cureus 2023-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC10199746/ /pubmed/37213975 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37896 Text en Copyright © 2023, Martino et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Unique Endoscopic Presentation of Colon Metastases From Primary Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast
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title_sort unique endoscopic presentation of colon metastases from primary invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10199746/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37896
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