Gastrointestinal Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Case Report

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 624-625

  Tohfe, Moustapha ^b   Shami, Paul ^b   Aftimos, Georges ^b   Saade, Michel ^a  

^a SAINT GEORGE HOSPITAL UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Lebanon)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL METASTASIS; BREAST TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; METASTASIS; PAGET NIPPLE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS;

EID: 0041883355     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000053252.38588.B8     Document Type: Article

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