Cervical Spinal Cord Compression: A Rare Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignancy of liver. Distant metastasis to various organs is well known. Skeletal metastasis is also reported to various locations. Vertebral metastasis has been reported mostly to thoracic spine. However, cervical spinal cord involvement lea...

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Autores principales: Ayyadurai, Puvanalingam, Badipatla, Kanthi Rekha, Chime, Chukwunonso, Arjun, Shiva, Reddy, Pavithra, Niazi, Masooma, Nayudu, Suresh Kumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5337315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28299213
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8567695
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Sumario:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary malignancy of liver. Distant metastasis to various organs is well known. Skeletal metastasis is also reported to various locations. Vertebral metastasis has been reported mostly to thoracic spine. However, cervical spinal cord involvement leading to cord compression has been reported very rarely in literature. We present a case of 58-year-old male with liver cirrhosis presenting as neck pain. Further work-up revealed metastatic HCC to cervical spinal cord resulting in acute cord compression. Patient has been treated with neurosurgical intervention.

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