Breast cancer metastases
Last revised by Rania Adel Anan ◉
on 30 Nov 2022
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Jones J, Anan R, Sun E, et al. Breast cancer metastases. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 04 Dec 2024) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-9026
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Synonyms:
- Metastases from breast cancer
- Metastases from breast cancers
Metastases from breast cancer can be a frequent finding in routine oncoradiological practice.
Clinical presentation
With the universal use and acceptance of screening mammography, the isolated clinical presentation from metastases from breast carcinoma has become rare in clinical practice. Historically, presentation from metastases was much more common than it is now.
More commonly, the primary breast malignancy is known at the time the metastases are found. The commonly accepted dictum reads that the smaller the breast carcinoma, the less the chances of metastases.
In radiology practice, the most common presentation is an enlarged node in the axilla. Senology may or may not demonstrate a lesion in the ipsilateral breast. FNA of the node then shows metastatic adenocarcinoma cells.
Pathology
Location
Most common sites of metastases:
Less frequent sites of metastases are:
- liver
- brain
- pancreas 3,4
- intramammary (rare)
- uvea 5
- orbit: forming a retrobulbar extraconal mass lesion with desmoblastic reaction resulting in enophthalmos
- pericardium
- soft tissue: rare
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Cases:
- Thoracic corpectomy
- Breast cancer brain metastases
- Transcoelomic spread of breast cancer
- Spinal dural and leptomeningeal metastases
- Pulmonary metastases - cannon ball
- Breast cancer with brain and skull bone metastases
- Brain metastases from breast carcinoma
- Brain metastases from breast cancer
- Sclerotic metastases of the lumbosacral spine
- Skull metastasis
- Skull metastasis
- Breast cancer metastasis
- Breast cancer brain metastases
- Haemorrhagic intracranial metastases from breast cancer
- Orbital metastasis
- Metastatic breast cancer
- Pathological fracture - breast cancer bone metastasis
- Breast cancer with single liver metastasis
- Dural and vertebral metastases from breast cancer
- Multiple lung and mediastinal metastases from breast cancer
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