fifty-one patients who were found to have liver metastases at post-mortem were reviewed and most showed progressively rising alkaline phosphatase before death but only 11 of 57 ( 19.2 % ) and 14 of 50 ( 28 % ) had positive liver scintiscans and liver ultrasound examinations respectively from 3-12 months before death .
C0494165
liver metastases
C0023884
liver