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Ovarian carcinoma in two patients with chronic liver disease

Author(s) -

Mehlika Işıldak

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

world journal of gastroenterology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427

H-Index - 155

eISSN - 2219-2840

pISSN - 1007-9327

DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v11.i28.4445

Subject(s) - ascites , cirrhosis , medicine , chronic liver disease , ovarian cancer , gastroenterology , disease , malignancy , liver disease , complication , ovarian carcinoma , cancer , liver cancer , carcinoma

Ascites is a common and debilitating complication of cirrhosis. However, patients with chronic liver disease are not spared from other causes of ascites and physicians should be careful not to miss an underlying malignancy. Ovarian cancer is an insidious disease, which is difficult to diagnose and it ranks first in mortality among all gynecological cancers. Here, we present two cases of patients with chronic liver disease that developed ascites not simply because of cirrhosis but as a manifestation of ovarian cancer. We would like to emphasize that the causes of ascites, other than the liver itself, should not be overlooked in patients with chronic liver disease.

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