We present a case of a young woman, with no known comorbidities, who presented with bilateral breasts lumps noted 6 months prior to her initial clinic visit. On examination, both breast masses were felt bilaterally. The masses were completely excised, and histopathologic examination confirmed the diagnosis of breast tubular adenoma. This report aimed to present a rare benign breast neoplasm and discuss the challenges in the diagnosis and management of such condition.
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women, and while metastasis is common to areas like the bone, lungs, and brain, it is rare to metastasize to the gastrointestinal tract and especially to the rectum. Due to the rarity of this condition and its resemblance clinically and radiologically to primary gastrointestinal tract tumors, diagnosis and treatment are challenging. We present a case of metastatic lobular mammary carcinoma in a 52-year-old Bahraini woman who presented with an obstructing rectal mass.
Altered contralateral axillary drainage is extremely rare after curative breast cancer treatment. We present a case of a 64 year-old women, with a past history of right breast invasive ductal carcinoma managed surgically by lumpectomy and right axillary lymph node dissection 20 years ago. She presented with recurrent right breast cancer and was scheduled to undergo right mastectomy along with sentinel lymph node biopsy. Technetium-99m nano colloid sentinel lymphoscintigraphy performed on the day of surgery showed sentinel lymph node on the contralateral left axilla. This case report aims to discuss the presentation of such uncommon contralateral sentinel axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer and highlight the importance of considering the lymphatic obliteration after ipsilateral axillary lymph node clearance.
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