Metastatic Breast Carcinoma Mimicking Urothelial Carcinoma

Shbair A. T. M., YASİN A. İ., TOPÇU A., ÇOBAN G., UZUNOĞLU G. D., ŞİMŞEK M.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY, vol.30, no.4, pp.466-469, 2022 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 30 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2022
  • Doi Number: 10.1177/10668969211067923
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SURGICAL PATHOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, EMBASE, MEDLINE
  • Page Numbers: pp.466-469
  • Keywords: breast cancer, metastasis, nephroureterectomy, renal pelvis, KIDNEY, CANCER
  • Bezmialem Vakıf University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Besides being the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women, breast cancer is the main cause of cancer-related deaths in this group of patients. Breast cancer frequently metastasizes to bone, lung, brain, and liver. Renal metastasis from the breast is extremely rare. Here we aimed to report a case of breast cancer with metastasis to bone and left renal pelvis. A 58-year old woman with a mass lesion in the left renal pelvis that mimicked urothelial carcinoma was referred to our clinic. The left nephroureterectomy procedure was performed, and the pathology revealed that a renal pelvis metastasis secondary to breast cancer.