title: Intramammary lymph node metastasis in a patient with ovarian carcinoma and a brief review of the literature.
abstract: Metastasis from serous carcinoma of the ovary usually occurs in the subdiaphragmatic region. Metastasis to the breast and/or axillary-intramammary lymph node is very rare. It usually occurs in advanced disease, and it is important to distinguish a primary breast cancer from an ovarian cancer metastasis since the management of these two entities is totally different. Here we present a patient with metastasis to the breast and intramammary lymph nodes from ovarian serous carcinoma 25 months after diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Medical Oncology, Izmir Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Lutfiye
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Demir
authors.forename: Cigdem
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Erten
authors.forename: Seyran Ceri
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Yigit
authors.forename: Alper
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Can
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dirican
authors.forename: Vedat
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bayoglu
authors.forename: Yuksel
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kucukzeybek
authors.forename: Isil
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Somali
authors.forename: M Oktay
authors.initials: MO
authors.lastname: Tarhan
keywords: intramammary; lymph node; metastasis; ovarian cancer