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A Portal Vein Injection Model to Study Liver Metastasis of Breast Cancer
Published on: December 26, 2016
Cutaneous metastasis of a breast cancer diagnosed 13 years before
Maraya de Jesus Semblano Bittencourt1, Alessandra Haber Carvalho1, Bianca Angelina Macêdo do Nascimento1
1Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, PA, BR.
Abstract:
Metastasis is defined as a neoplastic lesion originating from another primary tumor, with which it is no longer in contact. Cutaneous metastases result from lymphatic embolization, hematogenous or contiguous dissemination or also direct implantation during surgical procedures. In women, the tumor most likely to metastasize to skin is breast cancer, which may manifest as papulonodular neoplastic lesions. We report the case of a 66 years old female patient, presenting papulonodular lesions 13 years after the initial treatment with surgery and chemotherapy for a cancer of the left breast.
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