A Mimicking Esophageal Cancer After Liver Transplant for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Rare Posttransplant Metastasis.
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چکیده
Liver transplant is now considered to be a successful treatment modality for early hepatocellular carcinoma. In addition, advances in immunosuppressive therapy have greatly prolonged posttransplant survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. However, both the posttransplant physiologic condition and immunosuppressive therapy affect the patient's natural immunity, resulting in accumulating and more problematic complications. Three years after a male patient with hepatocellular carcinoma underwent living-donor liver transplant, he presented with esophageal metastasis from recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma. This is an extremely rare complication, perhaps with an ominous prognosis, and, to the best of our knowledge, the first such case to be published in the English literature.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation
دوره 14 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016