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A Case of Breast Metastasis From Carcinoma of the Colon

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: Metastatic carcinoma of the breast from extramammary carcinoma is unusual, especially from carcinoma of the colon. A case of breast metastasis from carcinoma of the colon is reported. A 72-year-old woman was performed a left hemicolectomy for cancer of the descending colon (Stage IV) in June 1996. Lung metastasis was detected in September 1997. Circumscribed left breast tumor with a rapid growth was detected in September 1998, and a fine-needle aspiration cytology resulted in class V (adenocarcinoma). Extirpation of the tumor was performed under a suspicion of breast metastasis from carcinoma of the colon. The tumor was capsulated and measured 1.8cm in diameter. The tumor was diagnosed as breast metastasis from extramammary carcinoma histologically, because moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma was distributed in periductal and perilobular areas in absence of intraductal and intralobular proliferation. The tumor was histologically and immunohistochemically similar to the previously operated colon carcinoma. We diagnosed the tumor as breast metastasis from carcinoma of the colon. She died of growing lung metastasis from the colon carcinoma in April 1999.

Source: Nihon Rinsho Geka Gakkai Zasshi (Journal of Japan Surgical Association)

DOI: 10.3919/jjsa.61.902

Authors: Kenji UDA, Hitoshi KIN, Masahiko MURO, Hitoshi IDANI, Akihisa KANEKO, Hiroshi SASAKI, Kazuhiko WATANABE, Mitsuo NARUSUE

Institution: Fukuyama City Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Metastasis and carcinoma case studies

Subfield: Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2314055292

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