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Query: UMLS:C0019079 (
hemoptysis
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A 33-year-old man with
Wilson's disease
developed
hemoptysis
and radiographic evidence of nodular pulmonary infiltrates. A premortem diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma was made on the basis of alpha-naphthylannidase stains of pulmonary tissue obtained by open lung biopsy. We review all previous cases of
Wilson's disease
with this unusual complication and discuss the role of copper in hepatic oncogenesis as well as the alpha-naphthylannidase stain for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma.
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PMID:Hepatocellular carcinoma in Wilson's disease. Case report and review of the literature. 247 36
