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The incidence of extrahepatic gastrointestinal metastases from breast cancer is reported in the literature only as necroscopy studies (6–18 percent); they usually originate from lobular or a mixed ductal-lobular subtype. Nonspecific presenting symptoms, death of the patients caused by other more frequent metastases, and variable radiographic features mimicking primary neoplasms cause a clinical underestimation of this pathology. We report here a case of rectal metastasis from a lobular carcinoma eight years after mastectomy.
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Cervi, G., Vettoretto, N., Vinco, A. et al. Rectal localization of metastatic lobular breast cancer. Dis Colon Rectum 44, 453–455 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02234749
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