An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women and has a high proclivity for metastasizing, yet it seldom affects gynaecological organs. We present a case of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast that metastasized to the uterus following initial curative treatment. Our patient was taking tamox...

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Autores principales: Azhar, Musa, Hamdani, Syed Abdul Mannan, Iftikhar, Jhanzeb, Ahmad, Waqas, Mushtaq, Sajid, Kalsoom Awan, Umm-E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Obstetrics/Gynecology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8695695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34963837
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19820
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author Azhar, Musa
Hamdani, Syed Abdul Mannan
Iftikhar, Jhanzeb
Ahmad, Waqas
Mushtaq, Sajid
Kalsoom Awan, Umm-E
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description Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women and has a high proclivity for metastasizing, yet it seldom affects gynaecological organs. We present a case of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast that metastasized to the uterus following initial curative treatment. Our patient was taking tamoxifen, which can induce endometrial hyperplasia and make diagnosis more complicated.
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spelling pubmed-86956952021-12-27 An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma Azhar, Musa Hamdani, Syed Abdul Mannan Iftikhar, Jhanzeb Ahmad, Waqas Mushtaq, Sajid Kalsoom Awan, Umm-E Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women and has a high proclivity for metastasizing, yet it seldom affects gynaecological organs. We present a case of invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast that metastasized to the uterus following initial curative treatment. Our patient was taking tamoxifen, which can induce endometrial hyperplasia and make diagnosis more complicated. Cureus 2021-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8695695/ /pubmed/34963837 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19820 Text en Copyright © 2021, Azhar et al. https://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
Azhar, Musa
Hamdani, Syed Abdul Mannan
Iftikhar, Jhanzeb
Ahmad, Waqas
Mushtaq, Sajid
Kalsoom Awan, Umm-E
An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma
title An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma
title_full An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma
title_fullStr An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma
title_short An Unusual Occurrence of Uterine Metastases in a Case of Invasive Ductal Breast Carcinoma
title_sort unusual occurrence of uterine metastases in a case of invasive ductal breast carcinoma
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8695695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34963837
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19820
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