Carcinoma hepatocelular sincrónico con mixoma auricular: Informe de un caso / Synchronic hepatocellular carcinoma with atrial myxoma: A case report
Invest. clín
; 52(2): 170-174, jun. 2011. ilus
Article
in Spanish
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RESUMEN
Se presenta el caso de una mujer de 60 años que ingresó al Hospital General de México con diagnóstico de cirrosis hepática criptogénica y tumor hepático de estirpe no determinada, quien falleció por hemorragia digestiva alta secundaria a várices esofágicas. En la autopsia se encontró un hepatocarcinoma y un mixoma auricular izquierdo con elementos glandulares. Se hace una revisión de la literatura, buscando la asociación de estas dos neoplasias entre sí, y con otros tumores.
ABSTRACT
The case of a 60-year-old woman with history of cryptogenic hepatic cirrhosis and a probable hepatic tumor, who died of upper gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to esophageal varices, is presented. An autopsy study was carried out, which showed a hepatocellular carcinoma and a left atrial cardiac myxoma with glandular elements. A review of the literature, searching for the association between these two tumors, in addition to other tumors, is presented.
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Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
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Heart Neoplasms
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Liver Neoplasms
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Myxoma
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Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Invest. clín
Journal subject:
Biologia
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Medicine
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Relatos de Casos
Year:
2011
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Mexico
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/MX