A fatal case of metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma mimicking cirrhosis.

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Nashville, TN, USA.

Published: September 2021

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http://dx.doi.org/10.4322/acr.2021.325DOI Listing

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