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In advanced stages, distant metastases to the lungs, bones, and brain are common, but distant soft tissue (subcutaneous and skeletal muscle) and breast metastases are rare, and simultaneous metastases to all three rare sites had not been reported. We report a 69-year-old woman with right upper abdominal pain who underwent a plain and enhanced CT scan of the upper abdomen, which revealed an intrahepatic space-occupying lesion, as well as subcutaneous and peritoneal nodules in the abdomen. To further evaluate the presence of other metastases, an <jats:sup>18<\/jats:sup>F-FDG PET\/CT scan was performed, which showed abnormal FDG uptake in the liver, peritoneum, left upper femur, right breast, subcutaneous tissues of the thoracic and abdominal regions, and skeletal muscle, while the corresponding CT densities of part of the skeletal muscle and the left upper femur did not show any significant abnormality. 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