Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey

A patient who underwent mastectomy of the left breast owing to breast cancer was referred to our department for abdominal ultrasonography during her routine check-up. Radiological examinations demonstrated multiple masses that tended to form clusters in the liver parenchyma, and the lesions were ini...

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Autores principales: Damar, Çağri, Emek, Arif Emre, Uçar, Hüseyin, Erdal, Harun, Conkbayir, Işik, Öztunali, Çiğdem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160038
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author Damar, Çağri
Emek, Arif Emre
Uçar, Hüseyin
Erdal, Harun
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Öztunali, Çiğdem
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description A patient who underwent mastectomy of the left breast owing to breast cancer was referred to our department for abdominal ultrasonography during her routine check-up. Radiological examinations demonstrated multiple masses that tended to form clusters in the liver parenchyma, and the lesions were initially thought to represent metastases from the breast cancer. Multisite biopsies and serological tests confirmed the diagnosis of Fasciola hepatica infestation. To our knowledge, this is a unique case report of a patient with a known malignant neoplasm. We also present an overview of the literature about human fascioliasis in Turkey.
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spelling pubmed-61832182018-10-25 Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey Damar, Çağri Emek, Arif Emre Uçar, Hüseyin Erdal, Harun Conkbayir, Işik Öztunali, Çiğdem BJR Case Rep Case Report A patient who underwent mastectomy of the left breast owing to breast cancer was referred to our department for abdominal ultrasonography during her routine check-up. Radiological examinations demonstrated multiple masses that tended to form clusters in the liver parenchyma, and the lesions were initially thought to represent metastases from the breast cancer. Multisite biopsies and serological tests confirmed the diagnosis of Fasciola hepatica infestation. To our knowledge, this is a unique case report of a patient with a known malignant neoplasm. We also present an overview of the literature about human fascioliasis in Turkey. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6183218/ /pubmed/30363979 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160038 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Damar, Çağri
Emek, Arif Emre
Uçar, Hüseyin
Erdal, Harun
Conkbayir, Işik
Öztunali, Çiğdem
Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey
title Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey
title_full Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey
title_fullStr Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey
title_full_unstemmed Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey
title_short Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey
title_sort multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? an unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. a case report and overview of the literature from turkey
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6183218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20160038
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