Small Bowel Metastasis from Breast Cancer: A Case Report.
- Author:
Don Hyoun JO
1
;
Dae Young CHEUNG
;
Hyung Keun KIM
;
Dong Kyun SON
;
Ji Sung CHUNG
;
Jin Il KIM
;
Soo Heon PARK
;
Joon Yeol HAN
;
Jae Kwang KIM
;
Kyu Won CHUNG
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. jkkim@catholic.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report ; English Abstract
- Keywords:
Breast cancer;
Metastasis of small intestine
- MeSH:
Adenocarcinoma/*secondary;
Aged;
Breast Neoplasms/*pathology;
English Abstract;
Female;
Humans;
Intestinal Neoplasms/diagnosis/*secondary;
Intestine, Small
- From:The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
2005;46(2):137-141
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Breast cancer is a common malignancy in women and frequently metastasizes to various organs such as liver, lung, brain, bone and so on. But metastasis to gastrointestinal tract is rare. We describe a 73-year-old woman with small intestinal metastasis of breast cancer. She was diagnosed as right breast cancer in stage I, received modified radical mastectomy 6 years ago and had been followed up without any evidence of residual disease. During investigation for lower abdominal pain and weight loss of 9 kg, we found a small bowel mass. The histology of the tissue taken from small bowel mass was adenocarcinoma, poorly differentiated. The immunohistochemical stain of this specimen showed 75% positivity of estrogen receptor and 90% positivity of progesterone receptor. This is a case of small bowel metastasis from breast cancer and we report this case with a review of literatures.
