Duodenal Obstruction as First Presentation of Metastatic Breast Cancer

The metastatic breast cancer to the duodenum is rare in spite of common breast cancer. In this paper, we are reporting a rare case of 50-year-old lady who presented with intestinal obstruction as result of metastatic breast cancer which completely responds to chemotherapy. The tumor presents again a...

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Autores principales: Khairy, Sami, Azzam, Ayman, Mohammed, Shamayel, Suleman, Kausar, Khawaji, Abdurahman, Amin, Tarek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523720/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26266075
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/605719
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author Khairy, Sami
Azzam, Ayman
Mohammed, Shamayel
Suleman, Kausar
Khawaji, Abdurahman
Amin, Tarek
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description The metastatic breast cancer to the duodenum is rare in spite of common breast cancer. In this paper, we are reporting a rare case of 50-year-old lady who presented with intestinal obstruction as result of metastatic breast cancer which completely responds to chemotherapy. The tumor presents again as brain metastasis after stop of Herceptin due to cardiac toxicity.
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spelling pubmed-45237202015-08-11 Duodenal Obstruction as First Presentation of Metastatic Breast Cancer Khairy, Sami Azzam, Ayman Mohammed, Shamayel Suleman, Kausar Khawaji, Abdurahman Amin, Tarek Case Rep Surg Case Report The metastatic breast cancer to the duodenum is rare in spite of common breast cancer. In this paper, we are reporting a rare case of 50-year-old lady who presented with intestinal obstruction as result of metastatic breast cancer which completely responds to chemotherapy. The tumor presents again as brain metastasis after stop of Herceptin due to cardiac toxicity. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4523720/ /pubmed/26266075 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/605719 Text en Copyright © 2015 Sami Khairy 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4523720/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/605719
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