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Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma?

Primary biliary cholangitis is a rare liver disease which often progresses to cirrhosis. It can be difficult to diagnose as patients are often asymptomatic initially or merely complain of fatigue or pruritus. We describe the case of a 56‐year‐old female who presented with a 2‐month history of painle...

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Autores principales: Elford, Alexander T, Dwyer, Jeremy P, Fanning, Scott B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32280782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12211
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description Primary biliary cholangitis is a rare liver disease which often progresses to cirrhosis. It can be difficult to diagnose as patients are often asymptomatic initially or merely complain of fatigue or pruritus. We describe the case of a 56‐year‐old female who presented with a 2‐month history of painless jaundice and constitutional symptoms. Computed tomography scan showed massive hepatosplenomegaly with abdominal lymphadenopathy. Liver biopsy and a strongly positive antimitochondrial antibody titer confirmed the diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis.
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spelling pubmed-71447772020-04-10 Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma? Elford, Alexander T Dwyer, Jeremy P Fanning, Scott B JGH Open Case Reports Primary biliary cholangitis is a rare liver disease which often progresses to cirrhosis. It can be difficult to diagnose as patients are often asymptomatic initially or merely complain of fatigue or pruritus. We describe the case of a 56‐year‐old female who presented with a 2‐month history of painless jaundice and constitutional symptoms. Computed tomography scan showed massive hepatosplenomegaly with abdominal lymphadenopathy. Liver biopsy and a strongly positive antimitochondrial antibody titer confirmed the diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis. Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd 2019-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7144777/ /pubmed/32280782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgh3.12211 Text en © 2019 The Authors. JGH Open: An open access journal of gastroenterology and hepatology published by Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Foundation and John Wiley & Sons Australia, 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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Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma?
title Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma?
title_full Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma?
title_fullStr Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma?
title_full_unstemmed Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma?
title_short Jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: Is it lymphoma?
title_sort jaundice, hepatosplenomegaly, and portal lymphadenopathy in a middle‐aged female: is it lymphoma?
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144777/
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