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Liver mass due to penetration of a silent duodenal ulcer.

Somi MH, Tarzamni MK, Farhang S, Eftekhaar-Sadat AT

Department of Internal Medicine, Imam Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. mhosseinsina@yahoo.com

Liver penetration is a rare but serious complication of peptic ulcer disease. We report a 60-year-old man, without any serious risk factor for peptic ulcer, presented with mild abdominal discomfort, food-related vomiting and weight loss, and a mass in the left hepatic lobe, which was the result of a silent duodenal ulcer penetration. The diagnosis was based on histological examination of the endoscopic biopsies.

Published 19 March 2007 in Arch Iran Med, 10(2): 242-5.
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