Fulminant hepatic failure caused by malignant melanoma of unknown primary origin [3]

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 804-806

  Tanaka, Misuzu ^a   Watanabe, Seishiro ^a   Masaki, Tsutomu ^a   Kurokohehi, Kazutaka ^a   Kinekawa, Fumihiko ^a   Inoue, Hideyuki ^a   Uchida, Naohito ^a   Kuriyama, Shigeki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4644283810     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-003-1379-1     Document Type: Letter

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