TY - JOUR
T1 - Metastatic leiomyosarcoma mimicking polycystic liver disease
AU - Beavers, Kimberly L.
AU - Fried, Michael W.
AU - Johnson, Mark W.
AU - Zacks, Steven L.
AU - Gerber, David A.
AU - Fair, Jeffrey H.
AU - Andreoni, Kenneth A.
AU - Odell, Pat
AU - Shrestha, Roshan
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Departments of *Medicine and †Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC. “Images in Liver Transplantation” is sponsored by Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc. through an unrestricted educational grant. Address reprint requests to Roshan Shrestha, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Liver Transplantation, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, CB #7080, 709 Burnett-Womack Bldg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7080. Telephone: 919-966-2516; FAX: 919-966-1700; E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2002 by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 1527-6465/02/0812-0014$35.00/0 doi:10.1053/jlts.2002.37210
PY - 2002/12/1
Y1 - 2002/12/1
N2 - In summary, we report a case of recurrent leiomyosarcoma metastatic to the liver that mimicked polycystic liver disease. Leiomyosarcoma can be so necrotic that it is mistaken for cystic lesions. It is important to differentiate cystic lesions of the liver because the treatment strategy varies.
AB - In summary, we report a case of recurrent leiomyosarcoma metastatic to the liver that mimicked polycystic liver disease. Leiomyosarcoma can be so necrotic that it is mistaken for cystic lesions. It is important to differentiate cystic lesions of the liver because the treatment strategy varies.
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U2 - 10.1053/jlts.2002.37210
DO - 10.1053/jlts.2002.37210
M3 - Article
C2 - 12474160
AN - SCOPUS:0036917001
SN - 1527-6465
VL - 8
SP - 1192
EP - 1194
JO - Liver Transplantation
JF - Liver Transplantation
IS - 12
ER -