A Unique Presentation of Jaundice

Obstructive jaundice has many common etiologies, which might cause us to overlook diagnoses that are far worse. This is a case of a Hispanic male who presented with jaundice and worsening liver function. During his hospitalization, he was erroneously diagnosed before being diagnosed with gastric can...

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Autores principales: Del Rio, Teresa, Santiago, Lloyd, Bansal, Raghav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10040143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36987485
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35397
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description Obstructive jaundice has many common etiologies, which might cause us to overlook diagnoses that are far worse. This is a case of a Hispanic male who presented with jaundice and worsening liver function. During his hospitalization, he was erroneously diagnosed before being diagnosed with gastric cancer. Even though biliary obstruction has many common etiologies, there are cases that can’t be explained, which warrants further investigation such as malignant etiologies.
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spelling pubmed-100401432023-03-27 A Unique Presentation of Jaundice Del Rio, Teresa Santiago, Lloyd Bansal, Raghav Cureus Internal Medicine Obstructive jaundice has many common etiologies, which might cause us to overlook diagnoses that are far worse. This is a case of a Hispanic male who presented with jaundice and worsening liver function. During his hospitalization, he was erroneously diagnosed before being diagnosed with gastric cancer. Even though biliary obstruction has many common etiologies, there are cases that can’t be explained, which warrants further investigation such as malignant etiologies. Cureus 2023-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10040143/ /pubmed/36987485 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.35397 Text en Copyright © 2023, Del Rio et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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