1. Case 38-2008
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Michael Laposata, Martin Hertl, Manjil Chatterji, Warren S. Sandberg, Joseph Misdraji, and Walter H. Dzik
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Radiofrequency ablation ,Cancer ,General Medicine ,Hepatitis C ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,law.invention ,law ,Hepatocellular carcinoma ,medicine ,Recurrent bleeding ,Coagulopathy ,business ,Liver cancer - Abstract
A 58-year-old man was admitted to this hospital because of hepatitis C infection, hepatocellular carcinoma, and recurrent bleeding. Hemophilia had caused multiple hemarthroses, for which he had received blood products since infancy. Hepatocellular carcinoma was detected 8 months before admission; attempts at radiofrequency ablation had been complicated by hemorrhage and the failure to correct coagulation-test results with factor VIII. A surgical procedure was performed.
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- 2008
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