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Umbilical metastasis derived from breast cancer: report of a case

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Umbilical metastases mainly arise from malignancies of the digestive and gynecological systems, but rarely from breast cancer. A 64-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer was referred to us for investigation of a painful lesion in the umbilicus. Immunohistochemical staining of a specimen obtained by biopsy from the nodule showed umbilical metastasis of breast cancer. After a work up, she was successfully treated with a combination of surgery and endocrine therapy. We report this case to reinforce that not all periumbilical tumoral deposits are consistent.

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  1. Breast Center, Bell Land General Hospital, 500-3 Higashiyama, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8247, Japan

    Hajime Abe & Keiichi Yamazaki

  2. Division of Breast and General Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital, Ōtsu, Japan

    Hajime Abe, Tsuyoshi Mori, Yuki Kawai, Yoshihiro Kubota & Tomoko Umeda

  3. Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Division of Diagnostic Pathology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Ōtsu, Japan

    Mitsuaki Ishida

  4. Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Ōtsu, Japan

    Tohru Tani

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Abe, H., Yamazaki, K., Mori, T. et al. Umbilical metastasis derived from breast cancer: report of a case. Surg Today 45, 907–910 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-014-0991-4

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