Bone involvement as a presentation of breast cancer metastasis, clinical case presentation

• Revelo Mera, Ronald Vladimir ^[1] ; Potes Berzosa, Bolívar Alfredo ^[2] ; Terreros Bueno, Alejandro Julián ^[3] ; Jaramillo Calderón, Geovanna Paola ^[4] ; Vargas Sánchez, Rómulo Daniel ^[5]
  1. [1] Hospital Luis Vernaza

     Hospital Luis Vernaza

     Guayaquil, Ecuador

     
  2. [2] Centro de Salud Pallatanga. Guayaquil, Ecuador
  3. [3] Hospital Del Niño Francisco Ycaza Bustamante. Guayaquil, Ecuador
  4. [4] Consultorio privado. Guayaquil, Ecuador
  5. [5] SOLCA Guayaquil. Guayaquil, Ecuador

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• Localización: Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias, ISSN-e 2953-4860, Nº. 3, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Salud, Ciencia y Tecnología - Serie de Conferencias)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Occult breast cancer is that involvement that manifests as a metastatic axillary lymph node, without clinical or radiological manifestation of primary breast tumor. It is an infrequent affectation and was previously referred only to those lesions that were not palpable. On the other hand, metastasis is the process by which a primary cancerous focus spreads to another organ. This spread takes place via the blood or lymphatic route. The organs that cause bone metastasis are the breast, lung and prostate, in male patients, at present there is a high percentage of clinical cases published concerning bone involvement of breast origin and it is because of this and the form of presentation, coupled with the metastatic aggressiveness that we observed is that in this paper we detail the clinical case of a female patient with metastasis of occult breast cancer, where several organs were affected