Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl

The authors present the rare case of a 17-year-old girl referred to the medical assessment unit following a large upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. On further evaluation, she was found to have a primary hepatocellular carcinoma with extensive metastases. In our patient, the tumour was deemed incur...

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Autores principales: Ali, Saadia Sasha, Sanmuganathan, Samuel N
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X15619791
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description The authors present the rare case of a 17-year-old girl referred to the medical assessment unit following a large upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. On further evaluation, she was found to have a primary hepatocellular carcinoma with extensive metastases. In our patient, the tumour was deemed incurable by resection, liver transplantation or percutaneous treatment. She underwent palliative chemotherapy and passed away 11 months following presentation.
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spelling pubmed-48573102016-08-03 Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl Ali, Saadia Sasha Sanmuganathan, Samuel N SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report The authors present the rare case of a 17-year-old girl referred to the medical assessment unit following a large upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage. On further evaluation, she was found to have a primary hepatocellular carcinoma with extensive metastases. In our patient, the tumour was deemed incurable by resection, liver transplantation or percutaneous treatment. She underwent palliative chemotherapy and passed away 11 months following presentation. SAGE Publications 2015-12-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4857310/ /pubmed/27489703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X15619791 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl
title Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl
title_full Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl
title_fullStr Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl
title_full_unstemmed Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl
title_short Variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: A manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl
title_sort variceal bleeding caused by oesophageal varices: a manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma in a 17-year-old girl
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4857310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27489703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X15619791
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