[Pseudocystic metastases of carcinoma of the uterine cervix mimicking polycystic liver disease].
Pseudocystic liver metastases are rare and mainly described in neuroendocrine or ovarian tumors. We report the case of a 46-year-old woman who presented with multiple hepatic metastases mimicking polycystic liver disease. Carcinoma of the uterine cervix had been diagnosed 9 years earlier, and initially treated by radiumtherapy and surgery. Although histological post mortem examination of the pseudocystic liver metastases was not characteristic, they were related to the uterine cervix carcinoma for the following reasons: no other primary tumor was discovered, especially carcinoid or ovarian tumors: immunostains were positive for epithelial cells and negative for the neuroendocrine panel: the cystic cerebellum metastasis had a typical histologic aspect. Uterine cervical carcinoma must thus be included in the list of tumors which may form cystic hepatic metastases.
Estermann
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Service d'Hépato-Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Emile Muller, Mulhouse.
Thiebault
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Turnani
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Djabri
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Wiedemann
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Sondag
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D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*