Breast cancer and gastrointestinal metastasis. A case report and review of the literature.

CONCLUSION: Metastatic lobular carcinoma of the breast is a rare entity with a heterogeneous range of clinical presentations. Detection of eventual gastrointestinal metastases are complicated to assess. ILC has various scale of glycolytic activity both in the primary lesion as well in the metastatic foci. When the level of suspicion is high and there is no uptake of FDG, further investigations are necessary. KEY WORD: Abdominal metastasis, FGD PET-TC, Lobular Breast Cancer. PMID: 29848817 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annali Italiani di Chirurgia - Category: Surgery Tags: Ann Ital Chir Source Type: research