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Cancer Res
February 1995
Department of Surgery, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois 60612.
Cancer cachexia contributes to the demise of a significant number of cancer patients, and severe loss of adipose tissue is a prominent component of this syndrome. One of the products of fat catabolism is glycerol, and its turnover is elevated in the cancerous state. Since glycerol is also one of the most important gluconeogenic substrates, its role in the augmented and abnormal gluconeogenesis of cancer hosts needs to be defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Radiol Diagn (Stockh)
January 1986
Veno-occlusive disease (VOD) of the liver was diagnosed in 8 patients with Wilms' tumour and peliosis hepatis (PH) in one. Fever of obscure origin, vague abdominal pain, hepatomegaly or hepatosplenomegaly, severe anaemia or sudden, unexplained drop in haemoglobin, thrombocytopenia, increasing serum transaminase levels, jaundice and ascites recorded within the first weeks or months of tumour diagnosis should arise suspicion of non-metastatic vascular hepatopathy. General or focal decreased accumulation of isotope at liver scintigraphy belong to the early radiologic findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA case of renal carcinoma with hepatic dysfunction and hypercalcemia is described. The literature on Stauffer's syndrome has been reviewed and the pathogenesis of this syndrome discussed. It is stressed that the presence of hepatic dysfunction should not be considered a contraindication to surgery since its manifestations have been observed to regress in many cases following removal of the tumor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFArch Intern Med
November 1977
Hepatomegaly and abnormal liver function can occur in nonmetastatic malignancies. A patient with metastatic prostatic adenocarcinoma that had spared the liver and extrahepatic biliary tree is described. He had puzzling episodes of jaundice for a period of 2 1/2 years.
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