Hepatocellular carcinoma occurring in a young crohn's disease patient

Pathology International

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 492-496

  Murakami, Ayumi ^a,d   Tanaka, Yukichi ^b   Ueda, Michio ^c   Nagano, Yasuhiko ^c   Kunisaki, Reiko ^d   Morimoto, Manabu ^c   Enaka, Makiko ^a   Tanabe, Mikiko ^a   Kawachi, Kae ^d   Sasaki, Takeshi ^a   Nozawa, Akinori ^a  

^a Department of Pathology ^*  (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Gastroenterological Center   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azathioprine; Crohn's disease; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Infliximab; Pleomorphic; Poorly differentiated HCC

Indexed keywords

ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; AZATHIOPRINE; DECARBOXYPROTHROMBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INFLIXIMAB; LIVER ENZYME; PREDNISOLONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; JAPANESE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER LOBECTOMY; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AZATHIOPRINE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CROHN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PEDIGREE; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 67650815703     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2009.02399.x     Document Type: Article

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