Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding as a Metastatic Manifestation of Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature | Zendy

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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding as a Metastatic Manifestation of Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Author(s) -

Tony Reiman,

Charles Butts

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

canadian journal of gastroenterology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1916-7237

pISSN - 0835-7900

DOI - 10.1155/2001/898434

Subject(s) - medicine , melena , metastatic breast cancer , gastrointestinal bleeding , cancer , breast cancer , epigastric pain , metastasis , surgery , radiology , vomiting

A 64-year-old woman with known metastatic lobular breast cancer presented with fever, epigastric pain, hematemesis, and melena. A bleeding, ulcerated gastric metastasis was found and was treated with endoscopic therapy, omeprazole, and hormonal therapy. The patient was alive and well 13 months later. The bleeding was probably precipitated by necrosis of the lesion during chemotherapy.

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