Gastric metastases originating from occult breast lobular carcinoma: Diagnostic and therapeutic problems

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ciulla, Antonio ^a   Castronovo, Gioacchino ^a   Tomasello, Giovanni ^a   Maiorana, Alfonso Maurizio ^a   Russo, Leila ^a   Daniele, Elio ^a   Genova, Gaspare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CYTOKERATIN 20; CYTOKERATIN 7; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GROSS CYSTIC DISEASE FLUID PROTEIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAMMOGRAPHY; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH CARCINOMA; STOMACH METASTASIS; STOMACH MUCOSA LESION; TOTAL STOMACH RESECTION; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; FATALITY; LUNG CARCINOMA; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 50649118641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-6-78     Document Type: Article

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