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First case of isolated vaginal metastasis from breast cancer treated by surgery

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a leading cause of death in developed countries. This neoplasm frequently relapses at distant sites such as bone, lung, pleura, brain and liver but rarely in the lower female genital tract. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the first case of isolated vaginal breast cancer me...

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Autores principales: Bellati, Filippo, Palaia, Innocenza, Gasparri, Maria Luisa, Musella, Angela, Benedetti Panici, Pierluigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23075305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-479
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author Bellati, Filippo
Palaia, Innocenza
Gasparri, Maria Luisa
Musella, Angela
Benedetti Panici, Pierluigi
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description BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a leading cause of death in developed countries. This neoplasm frequently relapses at distant sites such as bone, lung, pleura, brain and liver but rarely in the lower female genital tract. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the first case of isolated vaginal breast cancer metastasis and its surgical treatment. CONCLUSION: This case report focuses on the importance of an accurate genital tract examination as part of regular follow up in breast cancer survivors. Indeed, after this experience we feel that surgery could be considered a valid option for the treatment of an isolated vaginal metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-34950202012-11-11 First case of isolated vaginal metastasis from breast cancer treated by surgery Bellati, Filippo Palaia, Innocenza Gasparri, Maria Luisa Musella, Angela Benedetti Panici, Pierluigi BMC Cancer Case Report BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is a leading cause of death in developed countries. This neoplasm frequently relapses at distant sites such as bone, lung, pleura, brain and liver but rarely in the lower female genital tract. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the first case of isolated vaginal breast cancer metastasis and its surgical treatment. CONCLUSION: This case report focuses on the importance of an accurate genital tract examination as part of regular follow up in breast cancer survivors. Indeed, after this experience we feel that surgery could be considered a valid option for the treatment of an isolated vaginal metastasis. BioMed Central 2012-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3495020/ /pubmed/23075305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-479 Text en Copyright ©2012 Bellati 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.
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Musella, Angela
Benedetti Panici, Pierluigi
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