Author/Authors :
Santos, Marisa D. Department of Surgery - Digestive Surgery Service - Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Largo Professor Abel Salazar - Porto, Portugal , Paiva, Cláudia Department of Surgery - Digestive Surgery Service - Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Largo Professor Abel Salazar - Porto, Portugal , Silva, Cristina Department of Surgery - Digestive Surgery Service - Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Largo Professor Abel Salazar - Porto, Portugal , Garcia, José Department of Pathology - Pathological Anatomy Service - Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Largo Professor Abel Salazar - Porto, Portugal , Araújo, Alexandra Service of Medical Oncology- Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Largo Professor Abel Salazar - Porto, Portugal , Araújo, António Service of Medical Oncology- Centro Hospitalar do Porto - Largo Professor Abel Salazar - Porto, Portugal
Abstract :
Metastatic involvement of gastrointestinal tract from breast cancer is a rare event. We report the case of a 61-year-old womanpresenting with bowel obstruction, related to metastasis of a primary breast cancer she had 12 years earlier (a triple-negative invasiveductal carcinoma treated with surgery and chemotherapy). Bowel obstruction was caused by a 20-centimeter tumor in the jejunum,involving also the transverse colon. The patient underwent en bloc resection of tumor with jejunum and transverse bowel segmentand received adjuvant chemotherapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel. Twenty months later, she was alive without disease recurrence.
Keywords :
Single Jejunum Metastasis , Breast Cancer Arising Twelve Years , Initial Treatment , HER2
