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Query: UMLS:C0027627 (metastases)
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The authors report two cases of hepatic artery's ligature in patients suffering from pan-hepatic metastases in carcinoid tumor of the bowels. They have come to believe that the hepatic devascularization (by removing the carcinoid syndrome and associated hepatalgia) offers a more comfortable chance of survival to the patient, giving him often the illusion that he is cured.
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PMID:[Cases of devascularization of the liver in hepatic metastases of carcinoid tumors. Two cases (author's transl)]. 720 11