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Hepatocellular carcinoma with central nervous system metastasis: A case report and literature review

โœ Scribed by Friedman, Henry Dan

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1991
Tongue
English
Weight
635 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0098-1532

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โœฆ Synopsis

In the United States and western Europe, hepatocellular carcinoma is not generally regarded as a distantly metastasizing tumor. The ability of hepatocellular carcinoma to metastasize to the brain is illustrated by the example of a 65-year-old white American man with no identifiable risk factors for primary liver cancer. Though hepatocellular carcinoma rarely metastasizes to the central nervous system, such metastases are reported to have led to tumor diagnosis or signaled tumor relapse.

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## Abstract ## Background Metastases from tonsilar cancers are uncommon, usually found in the lung and less commonly in the bone, liver, and mediastinal sites. Only approximately 20% of patients die from distant metastasis. Central nervous system (CNS) metastases usually appear later in the course