Rectal localization of metastatic lobular breast cancer - Report of a case

The incidence of extrahepatic gastrointestinal metastases from breast cance r is reported in the literature only as necroscopy studies (6-18 percent); they usually originate from lobular or a mixed ductal-lobular subtype. Nons pecific presenting symptoms, death of the patients caused by other more fre quent metastases, and variable radiographic features mimicking primary neop lasms cause a clinical underestimation of this pathology. We report here a case of rectal metastasis from a lobular carcinoma eight years after mastec tomy.