SynthesisWorld journal of surgical oncology2014
Pancreatic solitary and synchronous metastasis from breast cancer: a case report and systematic review of controversies in diagnosis and treatment.
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- Metastatic lobular breast carcinoma to the pancreas: a case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2018Article
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- Metastasis to the pancreas and stomach from a breast cancer primary: a case report.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2017Article
- Pancreatic metastasis from invasive pleomorphic lobular carcinoma of the breast: a rare case report.Diagnostic pathology · 2017Article
- Solitary pancreatic metastasis from breast cancer: case report and review of literature.Sao Paulo medical journal = Revista paulista de medicinaReview
- Uncommon Site of Metastasis: A Case Report of Breast Carcinoma Spreading to the Pancreas.Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, IndiaArticle
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Abstract
backgroundMetastases from breast cancer cause the frequent involvement of lung, bone, liver, and brain, while the occurrence of metastases to the gastrointestinal tract is rare, and more frequently discovered after a primary diagnosis of breast cancer. Solitary pancreatic metastases from breast cancer, without widespread disease, are actually unusual, and only 19 cases have been previously described; truly exceptional is a solitary pancreatic metastasis becoming evident together with the primary breast cancer. CASE PRESENTATION: A 68-year-old woman reported general fatigue, lethargy, and jaundice. Abdominal ultrasound (US) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an ampulloma of Vater's papilla; moreover, a neoplastic nodule in the left breast was diagnosed. She underwent surgery for both breast cancer and ampulloma of Vater's papilla. Pathological examination of pancreatic specimen, however, did not confirm primary carcinoma of the duodenal papilla, but showed a metastatic involvement of pancreas from lobular breast cancer. Immunohistochemistry has been essential to confirm the origin of the malignancy: hormone receptors and mammaglobin were expressed in both the primary breast tumor and the pancreatic metastasis.
conclusionsThis is one of the few reported cases in literature of an isolated and synchronous pancreatic metastasis from breast cancer, where the definitive diagnosis was obtained only after surgery. We discuss the controversies in this diagnosis and the choice of correct treatment. The surgical resection of solitary metastases can be performed in the absence of disseminated disease.
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