Gastrointestinalmanifestations of breast cancer are not commom. We report a case of a femalepatient who was submitted to a laparotomy with clinical and radiological signsof large bowell obstruction. Her clinical hitory showed that she was treatedfor breast cancer several years before. Pathology indicated that a metastaticcarcinoma within the bowell wall was the cause of the obstruction. Previousreports described the lobular carcinoma of the breast as the most commom typeof breast cancer to produce bowell metastases. The stomach is described as themost frequent site of this metastatic dissemination. Since sistemic diseaseis common within these patients, surgical ressection is indicated only in thepresence of complications like obstruction or bleeding.
