Ductal breast carcinoma metastasized to the rectum: A case report and review of the literature

作     者：Bo Ban Kai Zhang Jian-Nan Li Tong-Jun Liu Jian Shi 

作者机构：Department of General SurgeryThe Second Hospital of Jilin UniversityChangchun 130041Jilin ProvinceChina 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Clinical Cases》 (世界临床病例杂志)

年 卷 期：2021年第9卷第36期

页      面：11346-11354页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Science and Technology Development Project of Jilin Province No.2020SCZT079 

主　　题：Breast cancer Ductal carcinoma Rectal metastases Case report 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal(GI)metastasis from breast cancer(BC)is rarely encountered in clinical *** symptoms and long intervals make early diagnosis ***,increased awareness of GI metastasis secondary to BC and a deep understanding of the clinical and pathological features,and intervention for GI metastasis are fundamental to avoid delay in correct diagnosis and *** SUMMARY The present report discusses the case of a Chinese female patient aged 36 *** patient presented with difficult defecation along with bloody stools and *** 2015,she had undergone right modified radical mastectomy and axillary lymph node dissection in another hospital to treat the infiltrating ductal breast carcinoma *** presenting symptoms were investigated by colonoscopy,which indicated a circumferential stricture in the lower rectum at 3 cm from the anal *** investigation with positron emission tomography-computed tomography revealed an uptake of fluorodeoxyglucose within the distal rectum as well as in the left *** samples from laparoscopic exploration were biopsied,which revealed metastases of *** analysis of the tumor confirmed that the patient had rectal metastasis of infiltrating ductal *** Rectal metastasis should be considered when patients with a history of BC present with changed bowel habits.