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Rectal metastasis from lobular breast carcinoma 15 years after primary diagnosis

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Lobular breast carcinoma represents 2–20% of infiltrative carcinomas of the breast. The incidence of extrahepatic gastrointestinal (GI) tract metastases observed in necropsy studies varies from 6% to 18% and the most commonly affected organ is the stomach, followed by colon and rectum [1–4]. Reported herein is the case of a 67-year-old woman who was primarily diagnosed and surgically treated for a lobular carcinoma of the breast 15 years ago and is now referred with back pain and right hydronephrosis caused by a metastasis in rectum. Frequently, the absence of specific symptoms of digestive metastases of breast cancer leads to a misdiagnosis of this pathology [5–7]. The treatment will be based on a detailed clinical history and histopathological findings. Metastases from breast cancer in GI tract tumours must be excluded in a patient with previous history of breast carcinoma, as in the case reported herein.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, Asuncion Clinic, Tolosa, Guipúzcoa, Spain

    Maite López Deogracias, Laura Flores Jaime, Jesús Murillo Guibert, Rosa Suescun García, Juan Querejeta Usabiaga & Francisco Martínez García

  2. Department of Pathology, Asuncion Clinic, Tolosa, Guipúzcoa, Spain

    Iñaki Arias-Camisón & Ilde Zamacola

  3. C/ Alliri, 6, 1.° B, ES-20400, Tolosa, Guipúzcoa, Spain

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López Deogracias, M., Flores Jaime, L., Arias-Camisón, I. et al. Rectal metastasis from lobular breast carcinoma 15 years after primary diagnosis. Clin Transl Oncol 12, 150–153 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/S12094-010-0481-0

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