Hepatoma in a 40-year old male with hereditary hemochromatosis in the absence of cirrhosis. Implications of molecular diagnosis.

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Hepatocarcinoma is a poor-prognosis complication of hereditary hemochromatosis (HH). It occurs with a frequency rate of 10-20%. It is usually diagnosed during the 6th or 7th decade of life, and it appears almost exclusively in association with liver cirrhosis or in the presence of other known risk factors such as HBV or HCV. We present a case of hepatocarcinoma in a 40-year-old male with a long history of ethanol...

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