Giant ectopic liver, hepatocellular carcinoma and pachydermia-a rare genetic syndrome?

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dettmer, Matthias ^a,b   Itin, Peter ^c   Miny, Peter ^d   Gandhi, Manoj ^b   Cathomas, Gieri ^a   Willi, Niels ^a  

^a Cantonal Institute of Pathology   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cellular carcinoma; Ectopic liver; genetic syndrome; Hepato; Metastasis; Pachydermoperiostosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CHORISTOMA; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LIVER; LIVER ADENOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER TUMOR; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; SYNDROME; TIME;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADENOMA, LIVER CELL; ADULT; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHORISTOMA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, PRIMARY HYPERTROPHIC; SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81155157959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-6-75     Document Type: Article

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