Breast cancer metastasis to the stomach may mimic primary gastric cancer: Report of two cases and review of literature

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jones, Gregory E ^a   Strauss, Dirk C ^a   Forshaw, Matthew J ^a   Deere, Harriet ^a   Mahedeva, Ula ^a   Mason, Robert C ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; IBANDRONIC ACID; LETROZOLE; PACLITAXEL; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; TAMOXIFEN; TIBOLONE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPHAGIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GAZE PARALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; METASTASIS; OVARIECTOMY; PLEURA METASTASIS; REVIEW; SIGNET RING CARCINOMA; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH ANTRUM; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH POLYP; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; LUNG CARCINOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; CARCINOMA, SIGNET RING CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34547754568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-5-75     Document Type: Review

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