Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma

INTRODUCTION: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the commonest cancers in the world. Metastasis is one of the most significant factors affecting prognosis. Common sites of extrahepatic metastases include lungs, regional lymph nodes and less commonly bone. CASE PRESENTATION: A 56-year-old male p...

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Autores principales: Subasinghe, Duminda, Keppetiyagama, Chathuranga Tisara, Sudasinghe, Hemantha, Wadanamby, Saman, Perera, Niranthi, Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4461905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13022-015-0013-2
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author Subasinghe, Duminda
Keppetiyagama, Chathuranga Tisara
Sudasinghe, Hemantha
Wadanamby, Saman
Perera, Niranthi
Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya
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Keppetiyagama, Chathuranga Tisara
Sudasinghe, Hemantha
Wadanamby, Saman
Perera, Niranthi
Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya
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description INTRODUCTION: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the commonest cancers in the world. Metastasis is one of the most significant factors affecting prognosis. Common sites of extrahepatic metastases include lungs, regional lymph nodes and less commonly bone. CASE PRESENTATION: A 56-year-old male presented with a painless occipital scalp lump of three months duration, with recent rapid enlargement. His skull x-ray showed a lytic lesion over occipital bone and the contrast CT scan of the brain showed a scalp mass with destruction of the adjacent skull. Core biopsy of the lesion revealed a metastatic deposit from a hepatocellular carcinoma. CONCLUSION: Primary presentation with skeletal metastases are rare in HCC with only a few reported cases. Here we report a case of HCC presenting as a solitary scalp lump.
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spelling pubmed-44619052015-06-11 Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma Subasinghe, Duminda Keppetiyagama, Chathuranga Tisara Sudasinghe, Hemantha Wadanamby, Saman Perera, Niranthi Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya Ann Surg Innov Res Case Report INTRODUCTION: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is among the commonest cancers in the world. Metastasis is one of the most significant factors affecting prognosis. Common sites of extrahepatic metastases include lungs, regional lymph nodes and less commonly bone. CASE PRESENTATION: A 56-year-old male presented with a painless occipital scalp lump of three months duration, with recent rapid enlargement. His skull x-ray showed a lytic lesion over occipital bone and the contrast CT scan of the brain showed a scalp mass with destruction of the adjacent skull. Core biopsy of the lesion revealed a metastatic deposit from a hepatocellular carcinoma. CONCLUSION: Primary presentation with skeletal metastases are rare in HCC with only a few reported cases. Here we report a case of HCC presenting as a solitary scalp lump. BioMed Central 2015-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4461905/ /pubmed/26064186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13022-015-0013-2 Text en © Subasinghe et al. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Perera, Niranthi
Sivaganesh, Sivasuriya
Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
title Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
title_full Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
title_fullStr Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
title_full_unstemmed Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
title_short Solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
title_sort solitary scalp metastasis – a rare presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4461905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13022-015-0013-2
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