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Breast Cancer
Studies from T. Milman et al provide new data on breast cancer
January 22nd, 2009
"An 83-year-old woman, diagnosed with breast carcinoma 28 years earlier, presented with left hyperglobus and limitation of extraocular motility. CT and MRI showed bilateral nodular thickening of extraocular muscles," investigators in the United States report. "Left orbital biopsy disclosed metastatic breast carcinoma. Subsequent positron-emission tomographv/CT revealed diffuse metastatic disease," wrote T. Milman and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "To the authors' knowledge, this case represents the longest reported interval from the diagnosis of primary breast cancer to the presentation of orbital metastasis." Milman and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-01-22)
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