Abstract
A 52-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for multiple left breast tumors. There was a history of undergoing oophrectomy for a right ovarian carcinoma (T3c by TNM classification) 5 years before. Painless three tumors were palpable at the A and B regions of the left breast. Ultrasonography revealed three tumors with irregular margin, 1_??_2cm in diametar at the left breast. The another imaging examinations also demonstrated almost same findings. Aspiration biopsy cytology revealed malignant cells as noted in the past specimen of the ovarian carcinoma. From the data mentioned before, a diagnosis of metastatic breast tumor of ovarian carcinoma was made. However she refused to have any treatment for the breast tumor and passed away 8 months later because of carcinomatous peritonitis. It is known that the breast is an organ to which other organ malignancy hardly metastasize. This paper presents a case of metastatic breast tumor of ovarian carcinoma that is rarely seen in the literature.
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