Pancreas is known for the unfavorable soil to the metastati carcinoma. The primary tumors of metastatic pancreatic cancer are breast, lung, lymphoma, malignant melanoma, leukemia, stomach, and colon. The breast carcinoma is the commonest tumor to
metastasize to pancreas and both tumors are related to estrogen receptor for tumor growth. In the present case, tumor cells showed indian file infiltrating pattern, which are seen in infiltrative breast carcinoma. The patent was underwent raical
mastectomy due to infiltrative ductal carcinoma three years ago. And also the tumor cells showed nuclear reactivity to immunostaining for estrogen receptor. In combination of the histopathologic, immunohistochemical, and her past history. We
concluded
that breast carcinoma was metastasized to pancreas, and we report a case of metastatic pancreatic carcinoma from breast wit review of literature.
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