Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding as a Metastatic Manifestation of Breast Cancer: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

CASE PRESENTATION: 64-year-old woman with known metastatic lobular breast cancer presented with fever, epigastric pain, hematemesis and melena. A bleeding, ulcerated gastric metastasis was found and was treated with endoscopic therapy, omeprazole and hormonal therapy; the patient was alive and well...

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Main Authors: Tony Reiman, Charles A Butts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2001-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2001/898434
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