Liver transplant for mixed capillary-cavernous hemangioma masquerading as hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 344-348

  Unal, Ethem ^a   Francis, Franto ^a   Aquino, Alger ^a   Xu, Ruliang ^a   Morgan, Glyn ^a   Teperman, Lewis ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary cavernous type; Hemangioma; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver transplant

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHOLELITHIASIS; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIXED CAPILLARY CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAPILLARY; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053989570     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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