Pancreatic metastases and first reported gallbladder metastasis from phyllodes tumor of the breast

Distant metastases from breast phyllodes tumor (PT) are very rare. They usually occur in lung and bones. We report a case of a 51-year-old woman who was hospitalized in the digestive surgical department for atypical epigastric pain. Her medical history started 2 years ago when she underwent a curati...

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Published in:Rare tumors 2020-11, Vol.12
Main Authors: Nasri, Salsabil, Hamila, Fehmi, Bourigua, Rym, Mestiri, Sarra, Elghali, Mohamed Amine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breast
Breast cancer
Case Report
Case reports
Chemotherapy
Computed tomography
Gallbladder
Malignancy
Metastases
Metastasis
Pancreas
Surgery
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Summary:Distant metastases from breast phyllodes tumor (PT) are very rare. They usually occur in lung and bones. We report a case of a 51-year-old woman who was hospitalized in the digestive surgical department for atypical epigastric pain. Her medical history started 2 years ago when she underwent a curative left mastectomy for a malignant PT of the breast. Radical surgery was indicated to her resectable pancreatic tumor diagnosed on computed tomography. Histological exam confirmed that it was pancreatic metastases of her breast PT. Adjuvant chemotherapy was indicated. Three months after the surgery, the patient developed gallbladder and brain metastases. She died 5 weeks later. With this case, we enrich the literature with another example of pancreatic metastasis from PT and we report, for the first time, gallbladder metastasis. The very high aggressiveness of this tumor suggests that markers of tumor malignancy need to be sought after by subsequent studies.
ISSN:2036-3613
2036-3605
2036-3613
DOI:10.1177/2036361320972866