Liver metastasis of a neuroendocrine neoplasm of unknown primary origin in a female patient with a history of breast cancer

We report on and discuss a case of a female patient diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, which was histopathologically assessed as an invasive ductal carcinoma. The patient was admitted to our Department in 2017 with a liver metastasis of a neuroendocrine tumour. On admission she had no symptoms of...

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Published in:Contemporary oncology (Poznań, Poland) Poland), 2018-01, Vol.22 (2), p.124-128
Main Authors: Struk-Panfill, Małgorzata, Błaut, Krzysztof, Pęksa, Rafał, Kmieć, Piotr, Sworczak, Krzysztof
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breast cancer
Case Report
Health risk assessment
Metastasis
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Summary:We report on and discuss a case of a female patient diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, which was histopathologically assessed as an invasive ductal carcinoma. The patient was admitted to our Department in 2017 with a liver metastasis of a neuroendocrine tumour. On admission she had no symptoms of an endocrinopathy and was in a good general condition. Due to unknown primary site of the metastasis and given the patient’s history of breast cancer, it was suspected that the breast cancer was in fact a neuroendocrine tumour. This hypothesis was confirmed by comparing histopathological specimens of the breast and liver tumours using advanced pathological methods.
ISSN:1428-2526
1897-4309
DOI:10.5114/wo.2018.76831