End-stage acute hepatic failure as clinical presentation of liver metastases from breast cancer

Tumori. 1998 Sep-Oct;84(5):616-7. doi: 10.1177/030089169808400523.

Abstract

A most unusual case of fatal acute hepatic failure as clinical presentation of liver metastases from breast cancer is described. The patient had a four-year history of indolent breast neoplasm and no previously known liver disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anuria / etiology
  • Bone Neoplasms / secondary
  • Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast / secondary*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Hepatic Encephalopathy / etiology
  • Humans
  • Jaundice / etiology
  • Liver Failure, Acute / etiology*
  • Liver Neoplasms / complications*
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Middle Aged