Struk-Panfil Małgorzata, Błaut Krzysztof, Pęksa Rafał, Kmieć Piotr, Sworczak Krzysztof
Department of Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Department of Pathology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Contemp Oncol (Pozn). 2018;22(2):124-128. doi: 10.5114/wo.2018.76831. Epub 2018 Jun 29.
We report on and discuss a case of a female patient diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, which was histopathologically assessed as an invasive ductal carcinoma. The patient was admitted to our Department in 2017 with a liver metastasis of a neuroendocrine tumour. On admission she had no symptoms of an endo-crinopathy and was in a good general condition. Due to unknown primary site of the metastasis and given the patient's history of breast cancer, it was suspected that the breast cancer was in fact a neuroendocrine tumour. This hypothesis was confirmed by comparing histopathological specimens of the breast and liver tumours using advanced pathological methods.