Paraneoplastic erythrocytosis as a primary presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
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Erythrocytosis associated with hepatocellular carcinoma.
I N A PREVIOUS STUDY, it was shown that erythrocytosis was present in 11.7 per cent of southern Chinese patients with hepatocellular carcinoma but that the mechanism of production remained obscure.’ Plasma erythropoiesis-stimulating factor ( ESF ), assayed on the fasted rat, was not increased in four subjects studied. Subsequent reports of the existence of erythrocytosis in hepatocellular carci...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0019-5359
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5359.53167