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Diffuse Liver Metastasis of Small-Cell Lung Cancer Presenting as Acute Liver Failure and Diagnosed by Transjugular Liver Biopsy: A Rare Case in Whom Nodular Lesions Were Detected by Enhanced CT Examination

Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a subgroup of lung cancer with a high frequency of liver metastasis, which is a predictor of poor prognosis. Diffuse liver metastases of SCLC with no visible nodular lesions in the liver when examined using computed tomography (CT) are relatively rare; however, a few...

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Autores principales: Mishima, S., Nozaki, Y., Mikami, S., Kihira, E., Iikura, M., Koketsu, R., Sugiyama, H., Masuda, T., Kaname, H., Egami, Y., Nakayama, T., Hasuo, K., Nakamura, H., Igari, T., Watanabe, K., Nagata, N., Sakurai, T., Yokoi, C., Kobayakawa, M., Kojima, Y., Akiyama, J., Imamura, M., Masaki, N., Yanase, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4427142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25969674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000381140
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Sumario:Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a subgroup of lung cancer with a high frequency of liver metastasis, which is a predictor of poor prognosis. Diffuse liver metastases of SCLC with no visible nodular lesions in the liver when examined using computed tomography (CT) are relatively rare; however, a few cases with rapid progression to acute liver failure that were diagnosed after death have been reported. In this paper, we report a 63-year-old man with diffuse liver metastases of SCLC that were histologically diagnosed using a transjugular liver biopsy while the patient was alive, even though no lesions were visible during a contrast-enhanced CT examination.