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Liver metastases
Alternative names:
metastases to the liver
Definition:
Malignant (cancerous) tumors whose cells originated at sites remote from the liver and spread to the liver via the blood stream. Metastatic liver tumors can cause liver failure. Common primary tumors which metastasize to the liver include colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, neuroblastoma. and Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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