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Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia
Primary lymphoma of the liver is extremely rare, and is more common among immunocompromised patients. It typically occurs after the fifth decade of life and has a male predominance. It often presents with diagnostic difficulties to both clinicians and pathologists as most cases have a solitary or mu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33123446 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10633 |
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author | Ali, Abdulla M. Omore, Ibrahim Riaz, Muhammad Faisal Paliou, Maria Simon, Karen |
author_facet | Ali, Abdulla M. Omore, Ibrahim Riaz, Muhammad Faisal Paliou, Maria Simon, Karen |
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description | Primary lymphoma of the liver is extremely rare, and is more common among immunocompromised patients. It typically occurs after the fifth decade of life and has a male predominance. It often presents with diagnostic difficulties to both clinicians and pathologists as most cases have a solitary or multiple mass lesions in the liver with normal alpha-fetoprotein levels. Chemotherapy is the standard of therapy. Here, we describe a unique case of primary hepatic lymphoma in an elderly immunocompetent female who presented with symptomatic hypercalcemia. |
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spelling | pubmed-75842982020-10-28 Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia Ali, Abdulla M. Omore, Ibrahim Riaz, Muhammad Faisal Paliou, Maria Simon, Karen Cureus Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Primary lymphoma of the liver is extremely rare, and is more common among immunocompromised patients. It typically occurs after the fifth decade of life and has a male predominance. It often presents with diagnostic difficulties to both clinicians and pathologists as most cases have a solitary or multiple mass lesions in the liver with normal alpha-fetoprotein levels. Chemotherapy is the standard of therapy. Here, we describe a unique case of primary hepatic lymphoma in an elderly immunocompetent female who presented with symptomatic hypercalcemia. Cureus 2020-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7584298/ /pubmed/33123446 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10633 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ali et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism Ali, Abdulla M. Omore, Ibrahim Riaz, Muhammad Faisal Paliou, Maria Simon, Karen Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia |
title | Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia |
title_full | Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia |
title_fullStr | Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia |
title_full_unstemmed | Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia |
title_short | Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Masquerading as Symptomatic Hypercalcemia |
title_sort | primary hepatic lymphoma masquerading as symptomatic hypercalcemia |
topic | Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584298/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33123446 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10633 |
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