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Diffuse Desmoplastic Metastatic Breast Cancer Simulating Cirrhosis with Severe Portal Hypertension: A Case of “Pseudocirrhosis”

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    David A. Sass, Mordechai Rabinovitz & Thomas A. Shaw-Stiffel

  2. Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Kenneth Clark & Dana Grzybicki

  3. Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Kaufmann Medical Building, Suite 916, 3471 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, USA

    David A. Sass

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Sass, D.A., Clark, K., Grzybicki, D. et al. Diffuse Desmoplastic Metastatic Breast Cancer Simulating Cirrhosis with Severe Portal Hypertension: A Case of “Pseudocirrhosis”. Dig Dis Sci 52, 749–752 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-006-9332-9

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