title: Breast and splenic metastases of squamous cell carcinoma from the uterine cervix: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Metastases to the breast from extramammary malignancies are infrequent, the most common primary sites are malignant melanoma, leukemia, lymphoma, and cancer of the lung, stomach, prostate and ovary. The cervical origin is exceptional. Splenic metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix is also rare. To the best of our knowledge, only three cases of isolated splenic metastasis have been reported in the literature.
  
  
  METHODS
  We describe the case of a 55-year-old North African woman who presented with a nodule in her left breast eight months after treatment for stage IIB squamous cell uterine cervical carcinoma. The excisional biopsy with histological study demonstrated a poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. A computed tomography scan revealed a splenic secondary location.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report here a case of two unusual metastatic sites of uterine cervical carcinoma, the breast and spleen. It is the first case of this association without widespread disease.
authors.affiliation: Medical Oncology Department, National Institute of Oncology, Quartier Irfane, Hay Riad 10080, Rabat, Morocco. m_meryem_a@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Meryem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Aitelhaj
authors.forename: Siham L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Khoyaali
authors.forename: Anouar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boukir
authors.forename: Mustapha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elkabous
authors.forename: Halima
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Abahssain
authors.forename: Hind
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mrabti
authors.forename: Basma
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: El Khannoussi
authors.forename: Hassan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Errihani
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000556:secondary*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy