Acta Med. 2017, 60: 163-166

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2018.14

Giant Metastatic Liver Tumor of Unknown Primary Origin: Thoracic Autopsy Solves the Mystery

Antigony Mitseloua, Stamatis S. Papadatosb, Savvina Tsoultsidoua, Kleio Fragkoulia, Michail Mitsisc, Theodoros Vougiouklakisa, Vasiliki Galanid

aDepartment of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, University of Ioannina, Greece
b3rd Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Medicine, Sotiria General Hospital, Athens, Greece
cDepartment of Surgery, University of Ioannina, Greece
dDepartment of Anatomy-Histology-Embryology, University of Ioannina, Greece

Received June 26, 2017
Accepted January 22, 2018

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