Cirrhosis and Primary Carcinoma of the Liver

Abstract

OCCASIONAL reports of a high incidence of * primary carcinoma of the liver have appeared in the American medical literature in recent years. These observations have not in general received a great deal of attention, owing at least in part to the fact that the number of cases of carcinoma in such reports has been small. During the course of a review of biliary-system neoplasms at this hospital it was noted that the number of primary carcinomas of the liver, both hepatomas and cholangiomas, had significantly increased during the past eight years. Whereas the incidence in 15,491 autopsies during the . . .