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Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review
Breast cancer rarely metastasizes to the uterus. Here, we report two breast cancer patients with synchronous metastases to the uterus. Case 1 highlights a 46-year-old female with invasive ductal carcinoma who presented with a breast mass and was found to have uterine enlargement on positron emission...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29344435 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1840 |
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author | Akhtar, Aisha Ratra, Atul Puckett, Yana Sheikh, Abu Baker Ronaghan, Catherine A |
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description | Breast cancer rarely metastasizes to the uterus. Here, we report two breast cancer patients with synchronous metastases to the uterus. Case 1 highlights a 46-year-old female with invasive ductal carcinoma who presented with a breast mass and was found to have uterine enlargement on positron emission tomography (PET) scan. Biopsy revealed a metastatic 4 mm focus of breast cancer in the background of endometrial hyperplasia. Case 2 reports a 62-year-old postmenopausal female diagnosed with lobular carcinoma of the breast following an abnormal screening mammogram. A routine pap smear necessitated further workup, revealing simultaneous endometrial and cervical metastasis. Both patients did not have any gynecologic symptoms and presented a diagnostic challenge. |
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spelling | pubmed-57663532018-01-17 Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review Akhtar, Aisha Ratra, Atul Puckett, Yana Sheikh, Abu Baker Ronaghan, Catherine A Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Breast cancer rarely metastasizes to the uterus. Here, we report two breast cancer patients with synchronous metastases to the uterus. Case 1 highlights a 46-year-old female with invasive ductal carcinoma who presented with a breast mass and was found to have uterine enlargement on positron emission tomography (PET) scan. Biopsy revealed a metastatic 4 mm focus of breast cancer in the background of endometrial hyperplasia. Case 2 reports a 62-year-old postmenopausal female diagnosed with lobular carcinoma of the breast following an abnormal screening mammogram. A routine pap smear necessitated further workup, revealing simultaneous endometrial and cervical metastasis. Both patients did not have any gynecologic symptoms and presented a diagnostic challenge. Cureus 2017-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5766353/ /pubmed/29344435 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1840 Text en Copyright © 2017, Akhtar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Obstetrics/Gynecology Akhtar, Aisha Ratra, Atul Puckett, Yana Sheikh, Abu Baker Ronaghan, Catherine A Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review |
title | Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review |
title_full | Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review |
title_fullStr | Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review |
title_short | Synchronous Uterine Metastases from Breast Cancer: Case Study and Literature Review |
title_sort | synchronous uterine metastases from breast cancer: case study and literature review |
topic | Obstetrics/Gynecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29344435 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1840 |
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