Metastatic carcinoid tumor of liver and breast ductal carcinoma in a 26-year-old woman: diagnosis after detection of hypercalcemia
International Journal of Development Research
Metastatic carcinoid tumor of liver and breast ductal carcinoma in a 26-year-old woman: diagnosis after detection of hypercalcemia
Received 19th January, 2022; Received in revised form 30th January, 2022; Accepted 06th February, 2022; Published online 19th March, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Gabriela Maria C. Ferreira et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The authors describe the case of a 26-year-old woman who started with dyspeptic symptoms and fever. She was referred to the hospital with a suspected diagnosis of liver abscess. Laboratory tests showed severe hypercalcemia. Hypercalcemia associated with malignancy is described in 20 to 30% of cancer patients at some stage of the disease, and means a poor prognosis. Two primary tumors were diagnosed: luminal invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast and metastatic hepatic neuroendocrine disease of undetermined site. This report demonstrates an atypical case of different primary neoplasms in two different locations in a young woman with no previous risk factors.
