Case 46-1985
- 14 November 1985
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 313 (20) , 1275-1282
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198511143132007
Abstract
Presentation of CaseA 32-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of a cystic mass in the liver.She was well until five months earlier, when diarrhea and fever developed and subsided after three days. Three months before admission she began to experience a "pressure" sensation in the epigastrium, which occurred between meals and was partially relieved by eating, and noticed a mass in the same area. A physician obtained laboratory studies that included a blood count, an erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and an automated scan of multiple biochemical tests, all of which were normal. Several stool examinations for ova . . .Keywords
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