Gastro-intestinal symptoms as clinical manifestation of peritoneal and retroperitoneal spread of an invasive lobular breast cancer: Report of a case and review of the literature

BMC Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Franceschini, G ^a   Manno, Alberto ^a   Mulè, Antonio ^a   Verbo, A ^a   Rizzo, Gianluca ^a   Sermoneta, Daniel ^a   Petito, L ^a   D'alba, Pierfrancesco ^a   Maggiore, Claudia ^a   Terribile, D ^a   Masetti, R ^a   Coco, Claudio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; FLUOROURACIL; MITOXANTRONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CYSTOSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROPERITONEAL CANCER; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENESMUS; TUMOR CELL;

AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERITONEAL CAVITY; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE;

EID: 33747395814     PISSN: 14712407     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-6-193     Document Type: Article

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