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Unusual Sonographic Finding of Metastatic Invasive Lobular Carcinoma to the Contralateral Breast
Author(s) -
Youk Ji Hyun,
Kim Eun-Kyung,
Kim Gwang Il,
Ko Kyung Hee
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.2008.27.12.1771
Subject(s) - medicine , university hospital , radiology
Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common breast cancer after invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), accounting for 5% to 14% of all breast cancers.1 Like other primary breast cancers, ILC can metastasize to a contralateral breast via lymphatic or hematogenous dissemination. However, contralateral breast cancer metastasis is a rare event. A variety of sonographic findings of metastases from extramammary malignancies have been reported, 2 but those from contralateral breast cancer are little known. We report an unusual sonographic finding of contralateral metastases of ILC in a patient with advanced breast cancer and systemic metastases.
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