An Uncommon Breast Odyssey: A Rare Case of Carcinoma Breast with Mesenteric Metastasis
We present an unusual case of invasive ductal breast carcinoma in a postmenopausal female with a clinically node-negative disease that was incidentally found to have mesenteric metastatic deposits on <sup>18</sup>F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan. Mesenteric metastasis from invasive breast carcinoma is rare, with <1% cases reported worldwide and limited availability of diagnostic and therapeutic protocols for carcinoma breast with mesenteric metastasis, this proved to be a challenging and intriguing case. To further accentuate the complexity, the primary tumor of this mesenteric metastasis was found to be invasive ductal carcinoma, which is even more infrequent, and <0.5% of cases have been reported till date.
Authors
- Kapil Bharti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-3173)
- Yogita Khandelwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-0750)
- Shivam Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8631-6898)
- Prakash Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7358-5861)
Institutions
- King George's Medical University (IN)
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences (IN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Published
- 2024-11-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_5_24
- Primary Topic
- Metastasis and carcinoma case studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00