Abdominal Pain and Abnormal Liver Tests After Orthotopic Liver Transplantation
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Abdominal pain and abnormal liver tests after orthotopic liver transplantation.
A 53-year-old man is seen in clinic 4 months after receiving an orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) for two small (<3 cm in diameter) hepatomas which were discovered incidentally. The patient had a history of heavy alcohol use in his twenties and thirties, but has not used alcohol for over 10 years. Liver histology on the resected organ revealed early micronodular cirrhosis with the two tumor nod...
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-12969