Primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of liver with humoral hypercalcaemia.

Postgrad Med J

Department of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Published: August 1990

A case of primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the liver with associated humoral hypercalcaemia is described. The patient was successfully treated with combination chemotherapy. A similar association has not been reported previously.

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