A Rare Cause of Right Upper Quadrant Pain in a 17-Year-Old Female

A 17-year-old Hispanic female presented to our hospital with complaints of right upper quadrant abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. Physical exam was positive for hepatomegaly. Abdominal computed tomography showed multiple hypoechoic liver masses. Liver biopsy was done, which was diagnostic for hep...

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Autores principales: Nwankwo, Nwabundo, Barbaryan, Aram, Ali, Alaa M., Mirrakhimov, Aibek E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23533842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/597196
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author Nwankwo, Nwabundo
Barbaryan, Aram
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description A 17-year-old Hispanic female presented to our hospital with complaints of right upper quadrant abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. Physical exam was positive for hepatomegaly. Abdominal computed tomography showed multiple hypoechoic liver masses. Liver biopsy was done, which was diagnostic for hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.
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spelling pubmed-36002512013-03-26 A Rare Cause of Right Upper Quadrant Pain in a 17-Year-Old Female Nwankwo, Nwabundo Barbaryan, Aram Ali, Alaa M. Mirrakhimov, Aibek E. Case Rep Gastrointest Med Case Report A 17-year-old Hispanic female presented to our hospital with complaints of right upper quadrant abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. Physical exam was positive for hepatomegaly. Abdominal computed tomography showed multiple hypoechoic liver masses. Liver biopsy was done, which was diagnostic for hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3600251/ /pubmed/23533842 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/597196 Text en Copyright © 2013 Nwabundo Nwankwo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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