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CASE REPORT: A sixty-five-year-old female patient underwent surgery for severe gastrointestinal symptoms, following an alarming CT image. Laparotomy revealed irresectable gastric cancer and peritoneal carcinosis. Palliative gastro-jejunostomy and ileo-descendostomy were performed. The endoscopic diagnosis - linitis plastica - and the intraoperative macroscopic appearance matched and agreed on the histologically presumed shigillocellular carcinoma. Three years following the initial abdominal symptoms, histological samples taken from newly detected cutaneous metastases which developed during oncological palliative treatment verified occult lobular breast carcinoma. Histological revision of the sample taken from abdominal exploration confirmed the latter diagnosis. The hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 negative malignancy showed very good regression for the palliative hormone treatment.

DISCUSSION: About ten percent of breast cancer cases are lobular carcinomas, which are more often multicentric, bilateral, occult and have a propensity to metastasize to serous membranes, abdominal and pelvic viscera. Due to the increasing survival of breast cancer patients, the number of abdominal metastases of breast cancer is expected to increase. Histological confirmation is indispensable even in case of advanced abdominal malignancies, especially in the case of an unusual medical history. The currently rare case demonstrates the need for multidisciplinary cooperation in all diagnostic and therapeutic fields of breast cancer.