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Shrenik Govindaraj1, Clement Prakash1, Anuradha Ananthamurthy2

  • 1Department of General Surgery and Laparoscopy, St John's Medical College Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

BMJ Case Reports
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PubMed
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A patient initially suspected of having a pyogenic liver abscess was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) with hepatic metastases. Definitive diagnosis required a trucut biopsy and immunohistochemistry, highlighting the importance of these methods for metastatic cancer.

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