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Secondary Carcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Atlas of Liver Pathology

Part of the book series: Current Histopathology ((CUHI,volume 23))

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In Western societies tumour in the non-cirrhotic liver is much more likely to be secondary to primary sites such as breast, colon, stomach and lung than of hepatic origin1. Overall some 10% of unselected post-mortem livers contain metastatic tumour and, indeed, the liver is the most frequent site of blood-borne metastatic growths, being affected in up to 50% of all patients dying of malignant disease. Conversely when the liver is cirrhotic, some 10% can be expected to contain primary tumours, whilst metastases are seen with reduced frequency (in only about 1% if biliary cirrhosis is excluded2).

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Wight, D.G.D. (1993). Secondary Carcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma. In: Atlas of Liver Pathology. Current Histopathology, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2212-2_23

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