Metastatic Signet-Ring Cell Gastric Carcinoma Masquerading as Breast Primary

Metastasis to the breast from an extra-mammary primary is a rare phenomenon; metastasis from gastric carcinoma to the breast is extremely so. We report a case who initially presented as mucin-secreting and signet-ring cell tumor of the ovary, and after an interval of 8 months with breast and chest w...

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Autores principales: Doval, Dinesh Chandra, Pande, Shripad Brahmanand, Sharma, Jai Bhagwan, Khatri, Sameer, Khurana, Arvind Kumar, Vaid, Ashok Kumar, Chaturvedi, Arvind Kumar, Hazarika, Digant
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2009
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Published: March 2009
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2895171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20651960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000203648
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Sumario:Metastasis to the breast from an extra-mammary primary is a rare phenomenon; metastasis from gastric carcinoma to the breast is extremely so. We report a case who initially presented as mucin-secreting and signet-ring cell tumor of the ovary, and after an interval of 8 months with breast and chest wall metastatic nodules. The covert gastric primary eluded the oncologists at both presentations.

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