A Unique Case of Muscle-Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Myositis

Breast cancer rarely metastasizes to the muscles, and it is even more unusual for this phenomenon to result in airway compromise. We present a unique case of an 84-year-old female who presented with neck swelling and upper airway obstruction due to metastatic breast cancer invading the sternocleidom...

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Autores principales: Gyorffy, Janelle, Philbrick, Samuel M., Bersabe, Adrian R., Upton, Richard J., Mathis, Derek A., Peters, Austin, Brown, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28744384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2648296
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author Gyorffy, Janelle
Philbrick, Samuel M.
Bersabe, Adrian R.
Upton, Richard J.
Mathis, Derek A.
Peters, Austin
Brown, Alexander
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description Breast cancer rarely metastasizes to the muscles, and it is even more unusual for this phenomenon to result in airway compromise. We present a unique case of an 84-year-old female who presented with neck swelling and upper airway obstruction due to metastatic breast cancer invading the sternocleidomastoid muscles. After establishing the diagnosis and discussing possible treatment options, the patient elected for antiestrogen therapy, palliative tracheostomy, radiation therapy, and hospice services.
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spelling pubmed-55064832017-07-25 A Unique Case of Muscle-Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Myositis Gyorffy, Janelle Philbrick, Samuel M. Bersabe, Adrian R. Upton, Richard J. Mathis, Derek A. Peters, Austin Brown, Alexander Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report Breast cancer rarely metastasizes to the muscles, and it is even more unusual for this phenomenon to result in airway compromise. We present a unique case of an 84-year-old female who presented with neck swelling and upper airway obstruction due to metastatic breast cancer invading the sternocleidomastoid muscles. After establishing the diagnosis and discussing possible treatment options, the patient elected for antiestrogen therapy, palliative tracheostomy, radiation therapy, and hospice services. Hindawi 2017 2017-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5506483/ /pubmed/28744384 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2648296 Text en Copyright © 2017 Janelle Gyorffy et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Gyorffy, Janelle
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Upton, Richard J.
Mathis, Derek A.
Peters, Austin
Brown, Alexander
A Unique Case of Muscle-Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Myositis
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title_full A Unique Case of Muscle-Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Myositis
title_fullStr A Unique Case of Muscle-Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Myositis
title_full_unstemmed A Unique Case of Muscle-Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Myositis
title_short A Unique Case of Muscle-Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Myositis
title_sort unique case of muscle-invasive metastatic breast cancer mimicking myositis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5506483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28744384
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/2648296
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