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Presentation of Unknown Primary Cancer with metastatic Liver Disease—management and Natural History
Author(s) -
Nesbit R. A.,
Tattersall H. N.,
Fox R. in.,
Woods R. L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1981.tb03730.x
Subject(s) - medicine , natural history , metastatic adenocarcinoma , presentation (obstetrics) , adenocarcinoma , disease , biopsy , cancer , primary tumor , pathology , primary cancer , metastasis , general surgery , oncology , radiology
Presentation of unknown primary cancer with metastatic liver disease—management and natural history. R. A. Nesbit, in. H. N. Tattersall, R. in. Fox and R. L. Woods, Aust. N.Z. J. med ., 1981, 11, pp. 16–19. Initial blind liver biopsy established a histological diagnosis of metastatic cancer in 27 out of 34 patients who presented with clinical signs of liver metastases and no obvious primary tumour. Twenty‐two of the patients had meta static adenocarcmoma, and a primary tumour site was identified before death in only four patients