Metastatic prostatic carcinoma presenting as fulminant hepatic failure

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1049-1050

  Shakir, Faiz A ^a   Madhoun, Mohammed ^a   Whorton, Joshua ^a   Harty, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse intrasinusoidal metastasis; Fulminant hepatic failure; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; LIVER ENZYME; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASCITES; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; DEATH; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; FATTY LIVER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOMEGALY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NECROSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEROLOGY; URINALYSIS; VITAL SIGN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BLOOD; FATALITY; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 54449098667     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31817c74c3     Document Type: Article

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