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  2. Liver tumor - Wikipedia

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    Liver tumors (also known as hepatic tumors) are abnormal growth of liver cells on or in the liver. Several distinct types of tumors can develop in the liver because the liver is made up of various cell types. [1] Liver tumors can be classified as benign (non-cancerous) or malignant (cancerous) growths.

  3. Carcinoid - Wikipedia

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    Carcinoid tumors are the most common malignant tumor of the appendix, but they are most commonly associated with the small intestine, and they can also be found in the rectum and stomach. They are known to grow in the liver, but this finding is usually a manifestation of metastatic disease from a primary carcinoid occurring elsewhere in the body.

  4. List of ICD-9 codes 140–239: neoplasms - Wikipedia

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    209 Neuroendocrine tumors. 209.0 Malignant carcinoid tumors of the small intestine; 209.1 Malignant carcinoid tumors of the appendix, large intestine, and rectum; 209.2 Malignant carcinoid tumors of other and unspecified sites; 209.3 Malignant poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma; 209.4 Benign carcinoid tumors of the small intestine

  5. Milan criteria - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, Yao et al. reported experience at the University of California San Francisco five-year post-transplantation survival of 75% in patients with tumors as large as 6.5 cm, or up to three lesions each less than 4.5 cm with cumulative tumor burden ≤8 cm. [4] Additional studies using these so-called "UCSF criteria" have shown favorable post ...

  6. New liver cancer treatment ‘effective in 90% of patients’

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    Consultant interventional radiologist Dr Brian Stedman said his team had performed 300 procedures in 100 patients whose form of eye cancer known as ocular melanoma had spread to the liver, called ...

  7. Carcinoid syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Carcinoid syndrome is a paraneoplastic syndrome comprising the signs and symptoms that occur secondary to neuroendocrine tumors (formerly known as carcinoid tumors). [1] The syndrome is caused by neuroendocrine tumors most often found in the gut releasing biologically active substances into the blood causing symptoms such as flushing and diarrhea, and less frequently, heart failure, vomiting ...

  8. M8242/3 Enterochromaffin-like cell tumor, malignant ECL cell carcinoid, malignant; M8243/3 Goblet cell carcinoid Mucocarcinoid tumor; Mucinous carcinoid; M8244/3 Composite carcinoid Combined carcinoid and adenocarcinoma; Mixed carcinoid-adenocarcinoma; M8245/1 Tubular carcinoid; M8245/3 Adenocarcinoid tumor; M8246/3 Neuroendocrine carcinoma, NOS

  9. Liver cancer - Wikipedia

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    Liver tumor types by relative incidence in adults in the United States (liver cancers in dark red color). [14] The most frequent liver cancer, accounting for approximately 75% of all primary liver cancers, is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). [15] HCC is a cancer formed by liver cells, known as hepatocytes, that become malignant. In terms of ...

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