Year 2025 / Volume 117 / Number 7
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Late metastases: a rare cause of diarrhea

415-417

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2024.10399/2024

Rania Benabdallah, María Hernández-Pérez, Eva Manuela Pena-Burgos, Celia Trueba Collado, Susana Tabernero da Veiga,

Abstract
We present the case of a 64-year-old female with personal history of breast carcinoma diagnosed in 2011, treated and discharged from the Oncology service after 10 years disease-free who, 21 years after the diagnosis, undergoes a colonoscopy with biopsy sampling due to a 2-year period of diarrhea and weight loss, which histological study show infiltration of the large intestine’s by breast carcinoma. Due to the usual lymphatic widespread, metastases of breast cancer in the gastrointestinal tract are extremely rare with nonspecific symptoms, long latency periods and poor prognosis.
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Benabdallah R, Hernández-Pérez M, Pena-Burgos E, Trueba Collado C, Tabernero da Veiga S. Late metastases: a rare cause of diarrhea. 10399/2024


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Publication history

Received: 12/03/2024

Accepted: 04/05/2024

Online First: 20/05/2024

Published: 08/07/2025

Article Online First time: 69 days

Article editing time: 483 days


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