Gastrointestinal manifestations of breast cancer are not commom. We report a case of a female patient who was submitted to a laparotomy with clinical and radiological signs of large bowell obstruction. Her clinical hitory showed that she was treated for breast cancer several years before. Pathology indicated that a metastatic carcinoma within the bowell wall was the cause of the obstruction. Previous reports described the lobular carcinoma of the breast as the most commom type of breast cancer to produce bowell metastases. The stomach is described as the most frequent site of this metastatic dissemination. Since sistemic disease is common within these patients, surgical ressection is indicated only in the presence of complications like obstruction or bleeding.
Breast carcinoma; metastatic carcinoma; intestinal obstruction