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‘Away from home’ extra hepatic hepatocellular adenocarcinoma in gastric fundal submucosa

Patient presented with upper gastrointestinal bleeding which was scoped and diagnosed as bleeding gastrointestinal tumour intra procedure, subjected to laparotomy and wedge resection with unchanged postoperative diagnosis. Only later to find out the tissue was interpreted as metastases hepatoid adenocarcinoma without primary liver pathology. Thus likely point towards malignancy changes of undiagnosed ectopic liver tissue on gastric wall.