Author(s)

Soha Yahya Hejazi^1*, Fahad Ali Alghamdi², Nisar Haider Zaidi¹

¹Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
²Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Objectives: To report rare metastasis in breast from rectal cancer. Case Report: A 47-year-old married lady who presented with rectal bleeding for six weeks and diagnosed as a case of adenocarcinoma with no metastasis underwent neoadjuvent radiotherapy and chemotherapy and then abdominoperineal resection on follow-up found to have left breast mass and skin lesion in upper abdominal wall. Mammogram showed BIRADS-5. Tru cut biopsy showed mucinous/signet ring adenocarcinoma and she underwent lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy and excision of skin lesion. Histopathology of breast lump and skin lesion came as mucinous adeno-carcinoma of colonic origin, but all axillary lymph nodes were negative for malignancy. Conclusion: Metastatic breast lump is rare entity and every effort to be put to diagnose it using modern diagnostic tools.

Metastasis to Breast, Rectal Cancer, Mucinous Adenoacrcinoma

Hejazi, S. , Alghamdi, F. and Zaidi, N. (2016) Rectal Cancer Metastasizing to Breast: A Case Report and Review of Literature. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 5, 43-49. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2016.52008.