Metastatic breast carcinoma presenting as persistent diarrhea
| Autor: | Amy S. Gifaldi, Gail R. Z. Wolfe, James G. Petros |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Diarrhea
medicine.medical_specialty Colorectal cancer Colonoscopy Breast Neoplasms Gastroenterology Metastasis Breast cancer Colon surgery Internal medicine medicine Humans Aged Aged 80 and over medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Carcinoma General Medicine medicine.disease Metastatic breast cancer Surgery Oncology Chronic Disease Colonic Neoplasms Vomiting Female medicine.symptom Breast carcinoma business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of surgical oncology. 51(3) |
| ISSN: | 0022-4790 |
| Popis: | Patients with breast carcinoma metastatic to the colon generally present with multiple symptoms, usually pain, vomiting, nausea, and ascites. We describe a patient who presented only with persistent diarrhea, underwent surgery for colon cancer, and, on pathological evaluation of the surgical specimen, was found to have metastatic breast cancer affecting the colon. Metastatic breast cancer should therefore be suspected in patients with a history of breast cancer and diarrhea of unknown cause that is not accompanied by other symptoms. Evaluating such patients by colonoscopy and biopsy would provide important information relevant to choosing between colon surgery and systemic therapy. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
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