Case of metastatic breast cancer from esophageal cancer

Metastasis to the breast from extramammary malignancies is rare. This is th e third case report of metastatic breast cancer from esophageal cancer. We report the clinical, radiographic, and pathologic findings of a 57-year-old woman who underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer and developed meta static cancer 2 years later. Pathologic examination of a resected specimen of the breast revealed squamous cell carcinoma invading the mammary glands. Estrogen receptor and axillary lymph node metastasis were negative with im munostaining. She is alive 6 months after the modified radical mastectomy.