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Digestive metastases of breast cancer are well documented (1-4). We report a patient with metastatic breast cancer presenting as a 5 mm polypoid benign looking lesion. The diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology and immunostaining.
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Breast Neoplasms/pathology , Carcinoma/secondary , Colonic Polyps/secondary , Aged , Colonic Polyps/pathology , Colonic Polyps/surgery , Female , HumansABSTRACT
Thromboembolic complications occurring in patients with Crohn's disease are increasingly reported and are associated with a high mortality. The mechanism by which the thrombogenic process occurs is unclear. As recent findings suggest that Crohn's disease is a chronic vasculitis with multifocal gastrointestinal infarctions secondary to an imbalance of the cellular hemostatic pathway, extradigestive thrombotic complications might be mediated by the same vascular immune reaction. We report an unusual case of recurrent venous thrombosis associated with regional enteritis, the main point of interest being two-fold: first, this case provides a morphological evidence for an angiitic process as the cause of extradigestive thrombosis; second, the gastrointestinal disease remained subclinical for more than four years although the patient developed major venous thrombotic complications.
