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Case Report and Review of Literature

CAPT. DAVID P. MINICHAN, Jr., MC; ROBERT L. A. KEELEY, M.D.; HUGH H. TROUT, Jr., M.D.; DANIEL LEAVITT, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1959;79(1):114-128.

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Primary carcinoma of the liver is comparatively rare in this country. Few cancers, however, have a poorer prognosis once the disease is recognized. The disease apparently spreads silently through the blood-filled sinusoids, destroying much parenchyma before it causes sufficient damage to make its presence known. Hope of cure depends on early diagnosis and complete surgical extirpation of the tumor. Recent advances in surgical technique have brightened the possibility of cure. If these advances are to be fully utilized, however, some method of earlier diagnosis must be discovered.

Presented here is a case of malignant cholangioma in a young woman which was discovered in her second postpartum month. A total right hepatic lobectomy was carried out in an attempt to eradicate the tumor.

One cannot say who first described primary liver cancer. Carl von Rokitansky,⁴⁵ in 1849, insisted that primary liver cancer was a common affection. He also separated primary . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. A. F.; Roanoke, Va.

Department of Surgery, Jefferson Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 15, 1958.

The contents of this article are the personal views of the authors and are not to be construed as statement of official Air Force policy.

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