Abstract

A 58-year-old female ovarian cancer patient was admitted to a gynecological surgery unit from a gynecological chemotherapy unit because of right lower limb vein thrombosis. During hospitalization the patient reported a major breast enlargement occurring within a few days and mentioned a breast injury occurring a month earlier. Ultrasound performed by gyne-sonologist as well as mammography and magnetic resonance imaging examinations of the left breast revealed suspected lesion. Core-needle biopsy was performed. The histopathology examination confirmed ovarian cancer to breast metastasis. Patient died due to lymphangitis carcinomatosa as the cause of respiratory failure. The case illustrates the possible sequence of ovarian cancer development ending with breast metastasis that occurs in 0.03-0.6% of all breast cancer patients.

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