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Synchronous Orbital and Gastrointestinal Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. With the advent of improved imaging techniques and screening programmes, only a small proportion of women present with metastatic disease. Metastases involving the gastrointestina...

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Autores principales: Soobrah, Ramawad, Tsang, Fiona, Grassi, Veronica, Hirji, Hassan, Mallappa, Sreelakshmi, Reichert, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4444565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26075123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/282790
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author Soobrah, Ramawad
Tsang, Fiona
Grassi, Veronica
Hirji, Hassan
Mallappa, Sreelakshmi
Reichert, Robert
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Tsang, Fiona
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description Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. With the advent of improved imaging techniques and screening programmes, only a small proportion of women present with metastatic disease. Metastases involving the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and orbit are rare occurrences. We describe the case of a woman with simultaneous GI and orbital metastases from breast cancer who initially presented with abdominal pain and blurred vision and also summarise a review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-44445652015-06-14 Synchronous Orbital and Gastrointestinal Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature Soobrah, Ramawad Tsang, Fiona Grassi, Veronica Hirji, Hassan Mallappa, Sreelakshmi Reichert, Robert Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women and is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. With the advent of improved imaging techniques and screening programmes, only a small proportion of women present with metastatic disease. Metastases involving the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and orbit are rare occurrences. We describe the case of a woman with simultaneous GI and orbital metastases from breast cancer who initially presented with abdominal pain and blurred vision and also summarise a review of the literature. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-05-13 /pmc/articles/PMC4444565/ /pubmed/26075123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/282790 Text en Copyright © 2015 Ramawad Soobrah et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Synchronous Orbital and Gastrointestinal Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
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title_full Synchronous Orbital and Gastrointestinal Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
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title_short Synchronous Orbital and Gastrointestinal Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort synchronous orbital and gastrointestinal metastases from breast cancer: a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4444565/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/282790
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