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Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction
BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal metastsasis from the breast cancer are rare. We report a patient who presented with intestinal obstruction due to solitary caecal metastasis from infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast. We also review the available literature briefly. CASE PRESENTATION: A 72 year old la...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18471290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-47 |
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author | Birla, Rashmi Mahawar, Kamal Kumar Orizu, Mavis Siddiqui, Muhammad S Batra, Arun |
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description | BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal metastsasis from the breast cancer are rare. We report a patient who presented with intestinal obstruction due to solitary caecal metastasis from infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast. We also review the available literature briefly. CASE PRESENTATION: A 72 year old lady with past history of breast cancer presented with intestinal obstruction due to a caecal mass. She underwent an emergency right hemicolectomy. The histological examination of the right hemicolectomy specimen revealed an adenocarcinoma in caecum staining positive for Cytokeratin 7 and Carcinoembryonic antigen and negative for Cytokeratin 20, CDX2 and Estrogen receptor. Eight out of 11 mesenteric nodes showed tumour deposits. A histological diagnosis of metastatic breast carcinoma was given. CONCLUSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of solitary metastasis to caecum from infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast. Awareness of this possibility will aid in appropriate management of such patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-23961632008-05-24 Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction Birla, Rashmi Mahawar, Kamal Kumar Orizu, Mavis Siddiqui, Muhammad S Batra, Arun World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal metastsasis from the breast cancer are rare. We report a patient who presented with intestinal obstruction due to solitary caecal metastasis from infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast. We also review the available literature briefly. CASE PRESENTATION: A 72 year old lady with past history of breast cancer presented with intestinal obstruction due to a caecal mass. She underwent an emergency right hemicolectomy. The histological examination of the right hemicolectomy specimen revealed an adenocarcinoma in caecum staining positive for Cytokeratin 7 and Carcinoembryonic antigen and negative for Cytokeratin 20, CDX2 and Estrogen receptor. Eight out of 11 mesenteric nodes showed tumour deposits. A histological diagnosis of metastatic breast carcinoma was given. CONCLUSION: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report of solitary metastasis to caecum from infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast. Awareness of this possibility will aid in appropriate management of such patients. BioMed Central 2008-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC2396163/ /pubmed/18471290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-47 Text en Copyright © 2008 Birla et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Birla, Rashmi Mahawar, Kamal Kumar Orizu, Mavis Siddiqui, Muhammad S Batra, Arun Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction |
title | Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction |
title_full | Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction |
title_fullStr | Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction |
title_full_unstemmed | Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction |
title_short | Caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction |
title_sort | caecal metastasis from breast cancer presenting as intestinal obstruction |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18471290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-47 |
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