Diagnostic Challenges for Clinicians in Lobular Breast Carcinoma With Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: A Case Report of an Immunocompromised Patient.
Cureus
; 16(7): e65610, 2024 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is a common condition in oncology. The lack of specificity in radiological and clinical characteristics of carcinomatosis makes their etiological diagnosis difficult. Metastatic infiltrating lobular breast cancer with PC is also a common occurrence in daily medical practice. We report the case of a 45-year-old female patient with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis, admitted for lobular breast carcinoma with bone and peritoneal metastases. The surgical exploration including a biopsy revealed peritoneal tuberculosis. The focus of this paper is to discuss the diagnostic traps associated with PC in malignant tumors to highlight the importance of pathological evidence in such cases.
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Cureus
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2024
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