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Tumour-to-tumour metastasis: breast carcinoma to an olfactory neuroblastoma.
- Source :
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Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England [Ann R Coll Surg Engl] 2020 Jul; Vol. 102 (6), pp. e118-e121. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 May 06. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Tumour-to-tumour metastasis is a rare phenomenon. It occurs when a primary tumour is a recipient of a separate tumour within the same individual. We present a case of a 66-year-old woman with known breast cancer who presented with one-sided nasal symptoms. Examination and imaging revealed a unilateral polyp arising from the skull base. She underwent endoscopic polypectomy with the histology demonstrating tumour-to-tumour metastasis from a breast carcinoma to an olfactory neuroblastoma, a rare sinonasal tumour. Clinicians should be cautious of distant metastases in any patient presenting with head and neck symptoms and a known primary tumour. This is the first documented case of this type.
- Subjects :
- Aged
Breast Neoplasms therapy
Carcinoma, Lobular diagnosis
Carcinoma, Lobular surgery
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant methods
Esthesioneuroblastoma, Olfactory pathology
Esthesioneuroblastoma, Olfactory surgery
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mastectomy
Nasal Bone diagnostic imaging
Nasal Bone pathology
Nasal Bone surgery
Nasal Cavity diagnostic imaging
Neoadjuvant Therapy methods
Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed pathology
Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed surgery
Neoplasms, Second Primary pathology
Neoplasms, Second Primary surgery
Nose Neoplasms pathology
Nose Neoplasms surgery
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Breast Neoplasms pathology
Carcinoma, Lobular secondary
Esthesioneuroblastoma, Olfactory diagnosis
Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed diagnosis
Neoplasms, Second Primary diagnosis
Nose Neoplasms diagnosis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1478-7083
- Volume :
- 102
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32374183
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2020.0038