Arias BE, Arias BMB, Tellería LYE, Causa TY

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 645-650
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ABSTRACT

The case report of a 42 years patient is presented with positivity of the human immunodeficiency virus for 3 years who went to the Surgery Department of the Government of Mbabane Hospital, in Swaziland, for presenting a painful abdominal tumor in the right superior quadrant, together with asthenia, anorexia and mild jaundice. She was evaluated in the Oncology Department and, after carrying out the necessary complementary exams to her, she was diagnosed hepatocellular cancer associated with the human immunodeficiency virus/aids and liver cirrhosis in stage III. Later she was referred to South Africa to receive combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

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