ArticleWorld journal of surgical oncology2012
Metastatic lobular carcinoma of the breast masquerading as a primary rectal cancer.
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- Colonic metastasis from breast carcinoma: A case report and systematic review of a rare clinical scenario.International journal of colorectal disease · 2026Pooled it
- Changes in hormone receptor when breast cancer metastasizes to the colon: case report and literature review.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Traumatic sigmoid colon rupture due to breast cancer metastasis: a case report.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast with colonic metastasis: a case series of three patients.Surgical case reports · 2023Article
- An unwelcome guest: two cases of colonic metastatic lobular breast cancer.Journal of surgical case reports · 2023Article
- Gastrointestinal Tract Metastases of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast: An Immunohistochemical Survey Algorithm.European journal of breast health · 2022Article
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- Ductal breast carcinoma metastasized to the rectum: A case report and review of the literature.World journal of clinical cases · 2021Article
- Colon metastases as first clinical manifestation of lobular breast carcinoma with no subsequent evidence of breast disease.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Breast Cancer Metastasis Masquerading as a Primary Gynecological / Colonic Malignancy: A Rare Diagnostic Conundrum.Cureus · 2020Article
- Widespread metastatic breast cancer to the bowel: an unexpected finding during colonoscopy.Oxford medical case reports · 2019Article
- Metastatic colonic and gastric polyps from breast cancer resembling hyperplastic polyps.Surgical case reports · 2018Article
- Large Bowel Obstruction Subsequent to Resected Lobular Breast Carcinoma: An Unconventional Etiology of Malignant Obstruction.Case reports in surgery · 2018Article
- Rectal Metastases from Breast Cancer. A Case Report.Journal of gastrointestinal cancer · 2017Article
- Breast cancer metastasizing to the stomach mimicking primary gastric cancer: A case report.World journal of gastroenterology · 2017Article
- Colonic and anal metastases from pancreato-biliary malignancies.World journal of gastroenterology · 2014Article
- Colonic Metastasis from Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.In vivo (Athens, Greece)Review
- Rectal Metastasis from Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of Literature.Case reports in gastroenterologyArticle
- Beyond Boundaries: Breast Cancer Metastasizing to Colon-An Insight into a Rare yet Significant Clinical Scenario: A Case Series.Euroasian journal of hepato-gastroenterologyArticle
- An Unusual Clinical Presentation of Gastrointestinal Metastasis From Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of Breast.Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reportsArticle
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Abstract
backgroundColorectal metastasis of lobular carcinoma of the breast is a diagnostic challenge. It may macroscopically simulate primary colon cancer or inflammatory bowel disease. In some cases, the interval between the primary breast cancer and metastatic colorectal lesions is so long that the critical records for diagnosis including history might be lost or missed. CASE PRESENTATION: Reported herein is a case of metastatic lobular carcinoma of the breast masquerading as a primary rectal cancer developed in a 62-year-old Japanese woman. The case initially presented as a circumferential rectal lesion, and information on the patient's history of breast cancer was not noted. As the result of endoscopic biopsy, diagnosis of poorly differentiated rectal adenocarcinoma was made. The lesion was surgically resected after chemo-radiotherapy. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen with hematoxylin and eosin (HE) stain revealed a single-file arrangement of the tumor cells, reminiscent of lobular carcinoma of the breast. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed an immunophenotype consistent with lobular carcinoma of the breast. Because further review of the patient's history revealed an occurrence of 'poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the breast', which she had experienced 24 years earlier, the final diagnosis of the lesion was made as rectal metastasis from lobular breast carcinoma.
conclusionsPoorly differentiated adenocarcinoma of the colorectum is rarer than that of the stomach. Linitis plastica-type cancer of the colorectum is also rarer than that of the stomach. A lesson from the present case is that before we conclude a linitis plastica-type cancer of poorly differentiated type as a primary colorectal cancer, it is critical to exclude a possibility of metastatic colorectal cancer.
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