Fatal haemoperitoneum as a result of liver metastases from nasopharyngeal cancer.
Spontaneous rupture of hepatic metastases is rare, there being only 22 cases documented in the literature. We report here the first such case owing to nasopharyngeal carcinomatous metastases. This is of interest because in South East Asia ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma is the usual cause of fatal haemoperitoneum.
Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories.
G A
GA
Dewar
S M
SM
Griffin
C A
CA
Van Hasselt
W Y
WY
Lam
A K
AK
Li
D002277:Carcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D006465:Hemoperitoneum / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000556:secondary; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous