TY - JOUR AU - Mahdi, Zaid AU - Ettel, Mark G. AU - Gonzalez, Raul S. AU - Hart, John AU - Alpert, Lindsay AU - Fang, Jiayun AU - Liu, Natalia AU - Hammer, Suntrea T. AU - Panarelli, Nicole AU - Cheng, Jerome AU - Greenson, Joel K. AU - Swanson, Paul E. AU - Westerhoff, Maria PY - 2021 DA - 2021/02/27 TI - Metastases can occur in cirrhotic livers with patent portal veins JO - Diagnostic Pathology SP - 18 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Metastases are common in non-cirrhotic livers but are considered unlikely in the setting of cirrhosis. However, the degree of fibrosis in cirrhosis may vary; thus metastases may still access the liver vasculature and present as a mass in cirrhotic livers. This possibility may affect pathologists’ diagnostic algorithms when faced with a liver mass biopsy. SN - 1746-1596 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13000-021-01076-5 DO - 10.1186/s13000-021-01076-5 ID - Mahdi2021 ER -