Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions

In patients with known risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma and an elevated AFP, the diagnosis should remain on the differential even in the absence of hepatic lesions. High index of suspicion is needed, and aggressive diagnostic approaches are needed to not miss this entity.

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Autores principales: Mupamombe, Charles, Veluvolu, Rajesh, Ahmad, Arslan, Preet, Mohan, Taiwo, Evelyn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29881547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1480
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author Mupamombe, Charles
Veluvolu, Rajesh
Ahmad, Arslan
Preet, Mohan
Taiwo, Evelyn
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description In patients with known risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma and an elevated AFP, the diagnosis should remain on the differential even in the absence of hepatic lesions. High index of suspicion is needed, and aggressive diagnostic approaches are needed to not miss this entity.
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spelling pubmed-59859892018-06-07 Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions Mupamombe, Charles Veluvolu, Rajesh Ahmad, Arslan Preet, Mohan Taiwo, Evelyn Clin Case Rep Case Reports In patients with known risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma and an elevated AFP, the diagnosis should remain on the differential even in the absence of hepatic lesions. High index of suspicion is needed, and aggressive diagnostic approaches are needed to not miss this entity. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5985989/ /pubmed/29881547 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1480 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions
title Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions
title_full Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions
title_fullStr Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions
title_full_unstemmed Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions
title_short Advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions
title_sort advanced‐stage hepatocellular carcinoma presenting without radiographic liver lesions
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29881547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1480
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