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Breast and splenic metastases of squamous cell carcinoma from the uterine cervix: a case report
- Source :
- Journal of Medical Case Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- BioMed Central, 2014.
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Abstract
- Introduction Metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies are infrequent, the most common primary sites are malignant melanoma, leukemia, lymphoma, and cancer of the lung, stomach, prostate and ovary. The cervical origin is exceptional. Splenic metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix is also rare. To the best of our knowledge, only three cases of isolated splenic metastasis have been reported in the literature. Case presentation We describe the case of a 55-year-old North African woman who presented with a nodule in her left breast eight months after treatment for stage IIB squamous cell uterine cervical carcinoma. The excisional biopsy with histological study demonstrated a poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. A computed tomography scan revealed a splenic secondary location. Conclusions We report here a case of two unusual metastatic sites of uterine cervical carcinoma, the breast and spleen. It is the first case of this association without widespread disease.
- Subjects :
- Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Splenic metastasis
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Splenic Neoplasm
Case Report
Breast Neoplasms
Fatal Outcome
Biopsy
Carcinoma
Medicine
Humans
Cervix
Neoplasm Staging
Medicine(all)
Cervical cancer
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Melanoma
Splenic Neoplasms
Cancer
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Lymphoma
medicine.anatomical_structure
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Female
business
Breast metastasis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17521947
- Volume :
- 8
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Medical Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....125e1b1efe5f9d8cb3d31c1787739380