Renal, gastric, and multiple intestinal metastases of invasive ductal carcinoma of breast.
- Author:
Dae Young KIM
1
;
Keun Wook LEE
;
Tak YUN
;
Tae You KIM
;
Dae Seog HEO
;
Yung Jue BANG
;
Noe Kyeong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. bangyj@plaza.snu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Breast neoplasm;
Neoplasm metastasis;
Stomach;
Intestine;
Kidney
- MeSH:
Abdominal Pain;
Adenocarcinoma;
Breast Neoplasms;
Breast*;
Carcinoma, Ductal*;
Colon;
Diagnosis;
Drug Therapy;
Dyspepsia;
Female;
Hemorrhage;
Humans;
Intestinal Obstruction;
Intestines;
Kidney;
Mastectomy, Modified Radical;
Middle Aged;
Neoplasm Metastasis*;
Ovary;
Peritoneum;
Quality of Life;
Stomach
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
2003;65(Suppl 3):S836-S840
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We describe a 53-year-old woman with renal, gastric, and multiple intestinal metastases of invasive ductal carcinoma of breast. She was diagnosed as left breast cancer of stage II, received left modified radical mastectomy 10 years ago and has been followed up without any evidence of residual disease. During investigation for indigestion and lower abdominal pain, we found multiple masses in left kidney, multiple levels of colon, ovary, peritoneum and bone. The histology of the tissue taken from renal mass was adenocarcinoma, which had identical features with those of masses resected from her left breast 10 years ago. During 28 month palliative chemotherapy, we found gastric metastasis of breast cancer and finally, the colonic metastatic masses caused intestinal obstruction. The diagnosis of gastrointestinal metastases of breast cancer is very important in the view of improvement of survival and quality of life because they can lead to intestinal obstruction, bleeding, and perforation.
