Direct Liver Invasion from a Gastric Adenocarcinoma as an Initial Presentation of Extranodal Tumor Spread

Gastric cancer often carries a poor prognosis, with an estimated 740,000 deaths from the malignancy occurring yearly worldwide (Dicken et al., 2005). The mortality of disease is largely dependent on the extent of tumor spread, as gastric cancer has a predilection to metastasize to other visceral sec...

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Published in:Case Reports in Medicine
Main Authors: Mitanshu Shah, Apsara Prasad, Dhyan Rajan, Christopher B. Tan, Mansi Shah, Pooja Raghavan, Paul Mustacchia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2012-01-01
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/651232