Sudden Onset Acute Liver Failure in a Patient with Clinically Occult Small Cell Lung Carcinoma: Autopsy Report and Review of the Medical Literature

Overview

Journal Autops Case Rep

Date 2019 Sep 19

PMID 31528623

Authors

Massimiliano Guerriero

Arnaldo Carbone

Francesco Colasurdo

Valerio Pellegrini

Anna Maria Pollio

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Abstract

Liver metastases are commonly found in advanced cancer patients; however, acute liver failure secondary to diffuse liver infiltration is rare. Small cell lung carcinoma accounts for 15% of lung carcinomas. We describe the ninth case of small cell lung carcinoma massively metastatic to the liver, reported in the scientific literature, with sudden clinical onset and death after a few days. An autopsy was performed to understand the cause of death.

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