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Resected case of carcinoid tumor of the liver metastatic from the breast

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Carcinoid tumor metastatic to the liver from the breast is very unusual. We report a rare case in which the patient underwent curative resection for metastatic lesions to the liver. She had undergone a modified radical mastectomy more than 1 year previously for breast cancer. Recently, it was found that plasma levels of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was elevated, and abdominal ultrasonography detected a liver tumor. The patient underwent a lateral segmentectomy of the liver, resulting in normalization of plasma CEA levels. The resected specimen was diagnosed as carcinoid tumor by histological, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural microscopic studies. Re-examination of the breast tumor proved it to be the primary carcinoid.

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  1. Department of Surgery, National Sendai Hospital, 2-8-8 Miyagino, Miyagino-ku, 983, Sendai, Japan

    Mikio Imamura & Hidemi Yamauchi

  2. Departments of Pathology, National Sendai Hospital, 2-8-8 Miyagino, Miyagino-ku, 983, Sendai, Japan

    Tsuneo Namiki

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Imamura, M., Yamauchi, H. & Namiki, T. Resected case of carcinoid tumor of the liver metastatic from the breast. J Gastroenterol 30, 398–402 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02347518

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