title: [A case of resectable solitary liver metastasis from breast cancer].
abstract: We report a case of resectable solitary liver metastasis from breast cancer. A 53-year-old woman underwent a pectoral muscle-preserving mastectomy for T1 N0M0 (Stage I) left breast cancer in May 2000. Histopathologic diagnosis was medullary carcinoma. Thereafter, the patient was followed up with adjuvant chemotherapy. A solitary tumor in the right lobe of the liver at S6 was found 10 months after mastectomy by ultrasonography. With a diagnosis of liver metastasis from breast cancer, right hepatectomy was performed in May 2001. At present, she remains disease free for 4 years after hepatectomy. We think that a surgical procedure for liver metastasis from breast cancer, if possible, is beneficial in prolonged survival.
authors.affiliation: Third Dept of Surgery, Toho University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Hidenori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Yoshinobu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sumiyama
authors.forename: Manabu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Kouji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Asai
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Enomoto
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Osawa
authors.forename: Ryota
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kanai
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsukiyo
authors.forename: Jiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nagao
authors.forename: Shinya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kusachi
authors.forename: Yoshihisa
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saida
authors.forename: Yasushi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Kei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D018276:Carcinoma, Medullary / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D008408:Mastectomy; D008875:Middle Aged