Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Gastric metastases originating from occult breast lobular carcinoma: diagnostic and therapeutic problems | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Case report Gastric metastases originating from occult breast lobular carcinoma diagnostic and therapeutic problems Antonio Ciulla1 Gioacchino Castronovo1 Giovanni Tomasello 1 Alfonso Maurizio Maiorana1 Leila Russo2 Elio Daniele2 and Gaspare Genova1 Open Access Address Department of Oncology Section of General Surgery School of Medicine University of Palermo Italy and institute of Pathology School of Medicine University of Palermo Italy Email Antonio Ciulla-bisturi@ Gioacchino Castronovo - bisturi@ Giovanni Tomasello - tomasellodamiani@ Alfonso Maurizio Maiorana - Leila Russo - russobriuccialeila@ Elio Daniele - bisturi@ Gaspare Genova - genova2@ Corresponding author Published 25 July 2008 Received 10 April 2007 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 78 doi 1477-7819-6-78 Accepted 25 July 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 78 2008 Ciulla et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Breast cancer is the most frequent malignant tumour to metastasize into the gastrointestinal tract in female and is second only to malignant melanoma. Nevertheless gastrointestinal metastases arising from breast cancer are quite rare. The upper gastrointestinal tract is more frequently involved and lobular infiltrating carcinoma has a greater predilection compared to the ductal type. Case presentation The authors describe the case of a 70 years old woman with a preoperative diagnosis of gastric undifferentiated medullary - type carcinoma which was the first manifestation of an occult breast carcinoma. The primary site of carcinoma was .
