Metastatic Signet-Ring Cell Gastric Carcinoma Masquerading as Breast Primary | Zendy

Dinesh Chandra Doval | Zendy; Shripad Brahmanand Pande | Zendy; Jai Bhagwan Sharma | Zendy; Sameer Khatri | Zendy; Arvind Kumar Khurana | Zendy; Ashok Vaid | Zendy; Arvind Chaturvedi | Zendy; Digant Hazarika | Zendy

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Metastatic Signet-Ring Cell Gastric Carcinoma Masquerading as Breast Primary

Author(s) -

Dinesh Chandra Doval,

Shripad Brahmanand Pande,

Jai Bhagwan Sharma,

Sameer Khatri,

Arvind Kumar Khurana,

Ashok Vaid,

Arvind Chaturvedi,

Digant Hazarika

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

case reports in gastroenterology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.247

H-Index - 18

ISSN - 1662-0631

DOI - 10.1159/000203648

Subject(s) - medicine , signet ring cell , signet ring cell carcinoma , metastasis , primary tumor , mucin , pathology , oncology , breast carcinoma , breast cancer , cancer , adenocarcinoma

Metastasis to the breast from an extra-mammary primary is a rare phenomenon; metastasis from gastric carcinoma to the breast is extremely so. We report a case who initially presented as mucin-secreting and signet-ring cell tumor of the ovary, and after an interval of 8 months with breast and chest wall metastatic nodules. The covert gastric primary eluded the oncologists at both presentations.

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