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Epidemiology and Pathology of Liver Metastases

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Liver Malignancies

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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The liver is one of the organs mostly involved in metastatic disease from a variety of cancers, in particular those of the gastrointestinal tract. The proportion of patients with liver metastases increases with the progression of the neoplasia. Metastatic tumors account for about 98% of all hepatic malignancies and are found in nearly 4% of all liver biopsies (Craig et al. 1989). They develop from both epithelial and mesenchymal tissue, but the epithelial tumors spread more frequently to the liver. In a large series of 10,736 malignant neoplasms, Pickren et al. (1982) reported that the metastatic tumor in the liver was 41 times more frequent than the primary hepatic tumor.

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  1. Division of Pathology, Department of Oncology, University of Pisa, Via Roma 57, I-56125, Pisa, Italy

    D. Campani MD, M. A. Calico MD, I. Esposito MD & G. Bevilacqua MD (Professor and Chairman)

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Campani, D., Calico, M.A., Esposito, I., Bevilacqua, G. (1999). Epidemiology and Pathology of Liver Metastases. In: Bartolozzi, C., Lencioni, R. (eds) Liver Malignancies. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58641-5_11

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