ArticleCase reports in oncological medicine2018
Gastric Linitis Plastica and Peritoneal Carcinomatosis as First Manifestations of Occult Breast Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review.
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- Atypical Presentation of Metastatic Breast Cancer: Gastric Outlet Obstruction and Linitis Plastica.Cureus · 2025Article
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- Case report: Cutaneous metastases as a first manifestation from breast cancer with concurrent gastric metastases.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- Breast cancer with an initial gastrointestinal presentation: a case report and literature review.American journal of translational research · 2021Article
- Screening Colonoscopy Unmasking Colonic Metastasis from an Occult Breast Ductal Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Case reports in oncological medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
Gastric linitis plastica is a diffuse involvement of the stomach walls by neoplastic cells. It represents about 3-19% of primitive gastric adenocarcinomas, but it can also be the manifestation of a metastatic disease. Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy in women, and the metastatic spread to the stomach occurs in less than 10% of the cases. We present an unusual case of gastric linitis plastica and peritoneal carcinomatosis as manifestations of an occult breast cancer in a 53-year-old woman. Imaging and endoscopic evaluation were not able to discriminate a primary from a secondary gastric lesion. The histological evaluation excluded the diagnosis of a primary gastric neoplasia. The IHC profile was consistent with the diagnosis of metastases from the breast cancer. Due to the hormonal receptors' positivity, we started therapy with fulvestrant (500 mg, day 0, 14, and 28 and every 28 days thereafter by intramuscular injection). After 20 months, the same therapy is still ongoing and well tolerated, while the patient is in good condition with improvement of the dysphagia. Almost 2 years after the diagnosis of linitis plastica, the primitive breast lesion is still occult.
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