DIFFICULTY OF DIAGNOSING METASTATIC BREAST CANCER IN A PATIENT AFTER MINIMALLY INVASIVE AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT: A CLINICAL CASE

Highlights The article describes a clinical case of patient with metastatic breast cancer detected after aortic valve replacement. was initially treated as sternal osteomyelitis due to ministernotomy performed during surgery. However, the diagnosis and spinal (third thoracic vertebra) metastatses, ribs lesion established upon further study. Adjuvant endocrine therapy prescribed her age previous Abstract Breast is an urgent problem in oncology it remains most frequent type Russian Federation world wide. Long-term treatment success survival patients depend on selected modality, long-term postopertive monitoring means early detection recurrence. Furthermore, concominant somatic ilness could change or mask symptoms local recurrence metastasis, resulting difficulties establishing proper diagnosis. We report severe stenosis who underwent have not found analogious cases domestic foreign literature.