[Plastic linitis as a manifestation of metastases from breast cancer]

Abstract

We present the case of a woman of 48 years old, with a gastric metastases from breast lobular carcinoma that was operated eight years ago, being free of illness until today. The symptoms who presented her were totally inespecific and the diagnostic techniques of image realized were compatible with the diagnostic of plastic linitis. The histological findings of biopsy and hormonals receptors study confirmed the diagnostic of gastric metastases of primary breast carcinoma after a comparative study with the initial surgical piece. After starting hormonal and cistostatic treatment, the patient presented a partial improvement of her symptomatology with a survival that exceeds ten months. The gastric metastases of lobular carcinoma are not so infrequent as it was believed, and its diagnostic require a high index of suspicion, given the inespecifity of symptomatology that it used to present.