Hospital Luis vernaza Guayaquil. Guayaquil, Ecuador
Centro de Salud Pallatanga. Guayaquil, Ecuador
Hospital Del Niño Francisco Ycaza Bustamante. Guayaquil, Ecuador
Consultorio privado. Guayaquil, Ecuador
SOLCA Guayaquil. Guayaquil, Ecuador
Occult breast cancer is that condition that manifests as a metastatic axillary lymph node, without clinical or radiological manifestation of a primary breast tumor. It is a rare condition and was previously referred to only as non-palpable lesions. On the other hand, metastasis is the process through which the spread of a primary cancer focus to another organ occurs. This spread is carried out through the blood or lymphatic route. The organs that cause metastasis to bones are the breast, lung and prostate, in male patients. Currently, there is a high percentage of published clinical cases referring to bone involvement of breast origin and it is for this reason and the form of presentation, added The metastatic aggressiveness that we were able to observe is that in this article we detail the clinical case of a female patient with metastasis of occult breast cancer, where several organs were affected
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