Acute hepatic failure and multi-system organ failure secondary to replacement of the liver with metastatic melanoma

BACKGROUND: Metastatic malignant melanoma to the liver resulting in fulminant hepatic failure is a rare occurrence. CASE PRESENTATION: A 46 year old man presented to hospital with massive hepatomegaly, elevated liver enzymes and increased lactate three weeks following resection of a malignant melano...

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Autores principales: Kaplan, Gilaad G, Medlicott, Shaun, Culleton, Bruce, Laupland, Kevin B
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1192792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15989692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-5-67

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1192792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15989692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-5-67

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