Metastatic Anal Lesion of Primary Lobular Breast Carcinoma- An Insidious, Rare and Subclinical Progression: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Metastatic Anal Lesion of Primary Lobular Breast Carcinoma- An Insidious, Rare and Subclinical Progression: Case Report and Review of the Literature

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Fabbri Nicolò
UO di Chirurgia Generale Provinciale, Azienda USL di Ferrara, Via Valle Oppio 2, Lagosanto, Italy

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Gastrointestinal metastasis from primary breast carcinoma is very uncommon, with less than 1% of breast carcinomas metastasize to the gastrointestinal tract but anorectal involvement is even rarer. These metastatic lesions can lead to diagnostic challenge for clinicians as they can mimic primary colo-rectal cancer due to the lack of diagnostic signs. The increase of patient survival could lead to an unusual late resumption of metastatic disease, often for a long-time occult. Nowadays, an almost completely absent literature is unable to suggest diagnostic pathways capable of predicting this type of disease evolution. We present the case of a 76-year old woman who underwent treatment for an infiltrative lobular carcinoma of the breast who developed metastasis of the anal canal 11- years later. A literature review was performed.

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Case Report & Review of Literature
Publication history
Received: Mon 09, Mar 2020
Accepted: Sat 28, Mar 2020
Published: Mon 30, Mar 2020
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© 2023 Fabbri Nicolò. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.COR.2020.03.12
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