Patients with chronically diseased livers have lower incidence of colorectal liver metastases: a meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND: 70 years ago, it was put forward that the diseased liver was not a favorable soil for metastatic tumor cells. In addition, a few studies have demonstrated that rare occurrence of colorectal liver metastases among patients with fatty liver, cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis B and C virus inf...

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Main Authors: Bin Cai, Kai Liao, Xian-qing Song, Wei-yuan Wei, Yuan Zhuang, Sen Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4181318?pdf=render