Three Cases of Liver Abscesses Complicated with Colon Cancer without Liver Metastasis: Importance of Screening for Digestive Disease

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 2013-2018

  Hiraoka, Atsushi ^a   Yamashita, Yoshimasa ^a   Uesugi, Kazuhiro ^a   Koizumi, Yohei ^a   Yamamoto, Yasunori ^a   Doi, Hirokazu ^a   Hasebe, Aki ^a   Ichikawa, Soichi ^a   Yano, Makoto ^a   Miyamoto, Yasunao ^a   Ninomiya, Tomoyuki ^a   Matsuura, Bunzo ^b   Horiike, Norio ^b   Michitaka, Kojiro ^b   Yoichi, Hiasa ^b   Nishikage, Saburo ^a   Onji, Morikazu ^b  

^a EHIME PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colon cancer; Diabetes mellitus; Hepatic abscess; Infection; Malignant diseases

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; HUMAN; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; HUMANS; LIVER ABSCESS; MALE;

EID: 38749144036     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.0080     Document Type: Article

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