Abstract
Breast cancer is known to metastasise to different organs in the body, but an initial presentation of breast cancer with loin pain secondary to a metastatic renal mass is extremely rare. We report a 58-year-old woman who presented with recurrent left loin pain due to a metastatic deposit of invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast. The detection of a renal mass on computed tomography led to the assumption of a renal pelvic malignancy. The diagnostic dilemma posed by the detection of a breast mass during staging and the usefulness of immunohistochemistry in the confirmation of diagnosis are discussed.
Publication Date
6-25-2013
First Page
453
Last Page
455
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Al-Jarrah, Adil; Taranikanti, Varna; Sawhney, Sukhpal; Furrukh, Muhammad; Al-Hosni, Mohammad; Saparamadu, P. A. M.; and Silva, M. V. C. De
(2013)
"Metastatic Invasive Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as a Primary Renal Malignancy,"
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal: Vol. 13: 453-455.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18295/2075-0528.1504
