Rarely, for unknown reasons, massive liver necrosis is produced by the hepatitis viruses and results clinically in usually fatal fulminant acute hepatitis. Most physicians recognize these two ...

She subsequently underwent liver transplantation. Her removed liver was found to be shrunken, with extensive necrosis. The third patient developed hepatic failure within 1 week of completing a 5 ...

the spleen is not the principal source of the pro-inflammatory cytokine called tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which drives the sort of system-wide inflammation seen in sepsis. A paper in Science ...

This allows up to a 6- to 7-cm area of necrosis when the fibers are simultaneously ... to treat both primary and metastatic tumors of the liver.

Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ... constitutively expressed on murine natural killer (NK) cells in the liver and plays a substantial role in suppressing tumor metastasis.