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Subcutaneous seeding after percutaneous ethanol injection of liver metastasis
O Goletti1, F De Negri, M Pucciarelli
1Department of Emergency Surgery, University of Pisa, Italy.
Radiology
|June 1, 1992
Abstract:
A 72-year-old cirrhotic woman underwent percutaneous ethanol injection treatment of a liver metastasis of unknown origin. A subcutaneous metastasis developed at the site of the punctures. Needle track seeding is a rare complication of fine-needle biopsy but has never--to the authors' knowledge--been reported after percutaneous ethanol injection. The possible causes of this complication are discussed.