A Rare Case of Bowel Obstruction due to Metastatic Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women and has a high mortality rate. It commonly metastasizes to the skeletal and pulmonary systems. Rare reports have described breast cancer spreading to the gastrointestinal tract. We present a female patient diagnosed with and treated for pri...

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Autores principales: Sharbatji, Mohamad, Khalid, Sameen, Wazir, Mohammed, Majeed, Umair, Jain, Akriti Gupta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722379/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31620541
http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000144
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author Sharbatji, Mohamad
Khalid, Sameen
Wazir, Mohammed
Majeed, Umair
Jain, Akriti Gupta
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description Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women and has a high mortality rate. It commonly metastasizes to the skeletal and pulmonary systems. Rare reports have described breast cancer spreading to the gastrointestinal tract. We present a female patient diagnosed with and treated for primary lobular-type breast cancer, who developed recurrent bowel obstruction due to metastasis.
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spelling pubmed-67223792019-10-16 A Rare Case of Bowel Obstruction due to Metastatic Breast Cancer Sharbatji, Mohamad Khalid, Sameen Wazir, Mohammed Majeed, Umair Jain, Akriti Gupta ACG Case Rep J Case Report Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women and has a high mortality rate. It commonly metastasizes to the skeletal and pulmonary systems. Rare reports have described breast cancer spreading to the gastrointestinal tract. We present a female patient diagnosed with and treated for primary lobular-type breast cancer, who developed recurrent bowel obstruction due to metastasis. Wolters Kluwer 2019-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6722379/ /pubmed/31620541 http://dx.doi.org/10.14309/crj.0000000000000144 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) , where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.
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