Case of Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Crohn’s Disease

Jonah N. Rubin; Andrea Chao Bafford; Bryce E. Haac; Fikru Merechi; Kaci Christian; Raymond K. Cross; Seema A. Patil; Uni Wong

doi:10.31487/j.GSCR.2019.01.04

Case of Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Crohn’s Disease

Case of Invasive Metastatic Breast Cancer Mimicking Crohn’s Disease

Review Data

The authors have reported a case of a 55-year-old woman who, 5 years after mastectomy, adjuvant chemoradiation and hormonal therapy for invasive lobular carcinoma of the right breast, presented with the typical symptoms of Crohn’s disease, but intraoperative findings and further tests changed the diagnosis to metastatic lobular carcinoma of the breast.

The manuscript submitted is of very high interest to Global Surgery Case Reports. The case has been described completely and aptly.

Although this case is not very common, such cases have been previously reported. Some previous reports are indicated below –

Szabó J, Falkus B, Simon E, Brünner S, Baranyay F (2010) [Late gastrointestinal metastases of invasive lobular breast carcinoma mimicking Crohn's disease]. Orv Hetil 151: 1666-1671.
Penn NM, Agostini Vulaj D, Huber AR, Dunn AL, Skalski K (2019) Metastatic Breast Cancer: Another Crohn's Mimic? Am J Gastroenterol S1145.
Gifaldi AS, Petros JG, Wolfe GR (1992) Metastatic breast carcinoma presenting as persistent diarrhea. J Surg Oncol 51: 211-215.
Jose Nazareno, Donald Taves, Harold G Preiksaitis (2006) Metastatic breast cancer to the gastrointestinal tract: A case series and review of the literature. World J Gastroenterol 12.
Saied A, Bhati C, Sharma R, Garrean S, Salti G (2011) Small bowel obstruction from breast cancer metastasis: a case report and review of the literature. Breast Dis 33: 183-188.
Ambroggi M, Stroppa EM, Mordenti P, Biasini C, Zangrandi A et al. (2012) Metastatic Breast Cancer to the Gastrointestinal Tract: Report of Five Cases and Review of the Literature. Int J Breast Cancer.

A minor error warrants correction –

In the 2nd paragraph under the Discussion section, the sentence “As a result, presenting symptoms...Crohn’s disease” could be re-written as “As a result, the presenting symptoms of bleeding, obstruction or perforation can mimic a range of diseases, including a linitis plastica-like gastric neoplasm to inflammatory conditions such as peptic ulcer disease, gastritis or Crohn’s disease.”

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Author Info

Jonah N. Rubin Andrea Chao Bafford Bryce E. Haac Fikru Merechi Kaci Christian Raymond K. Cross Seema A. Patil Uni Wong

Corresponding Author

Bryce E. Haac
Department of Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

Article Info

Article Type

Case Report

Publication history

Received: Wed 06, Nov 2019
Accepted: Sat 23, Nov 2019
Published: Mon 30, Dec 2019

Copyright

© 2023 Bryce E. Haac. 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.GSCR.2019.01.04