title: Umbilical metastasis derived from breast cancer: report of a case.
abstract: Umbilical metastases mainly arise from malignancies of the digestive and gynecological systems, but rarely from breast cancer. A 64-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer was referred to us for investigation of a painful lesion in the umbilicus. Immunohistochemical staining of a specimen obtained by biopsy from the nodule showed umbilical metastasis of breast cancer. After a work up, she was successfully treated with a combination of surgery and endocrine therapy. We report this case to reinforce that not all periumbilical tumoral deposits are consistent.
authors: Breast Center, Bell Land General Hospital, 500-3 Higashiyama, Naka-ku, Sakai, Osaka, 599-8247, Japan, abe@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp.
authors: Hajime
authors: H
authors: Abe
authors: Keiichi
authors: K
authors: Yamazaki
authors: Tsuyoshi
authors: T
authors: Mori
authors: Yuki
authors: Y
authors: Kawai
authors: Yoshihiro
authors: Y
authors: Kubota
authors: Tomoko
authors: T
authors: Umeda
authors: Mitsuaki
authors: M
authors: Ishida
authors: Tohru
authors: T
authors: Tani
mesh_terms: D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D018270:Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014472:Umbilicus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*