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Infiltrating Lobular Breast Cancer Presenting as Isolated Gastric Metastasis: a Case Report

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    Kirti Bushan, Praveen Kammar & Chandraveer Singh

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  3. Department of Pathology, Asian Cancer Institute, Mumbai, India

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Bushan, K., Kammar, P., Singh, C. et al. Infiltrating Lobular Breast Cancer Presenting as Isolated Gastric Metastasis: a Case Report. Indian J Surg Oncol 9, 318–322 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-017-0705-7

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