Poorly Differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Low-risk Patient with an Otherwise Normal Liver

We herein report a 48-year-old healthy woman who visited our hospital to investigate a 25-mm space-occupying lesion in the liver. The tumor was irregularly shaped and exhibited heterogeneous enhancement on dynamic computed tomography (CT). Whole-body positron emission tomography-CT showed an abnorma...

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Autores principales: Ogasawara, Nobuhiko, Saitoh, Satoshi, Denpou, Hideyuki, Kinowaki, Keiichi, Akuta, Norio, Suzuki, Fumitaka, Hashimoto, Masashi, Fujiyama, Shunichiro, Kawamura, Yusuke, Sezaki, Hitomi, Hosaka, Tetsuya, Kobayashi, Masahiro, Suzuki, Yoshiyuki, Arase, Yasuji, Ikeda, Kenji, Fujii, Takeshi, Kumada, Hiromitsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7028417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31619599
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.3577-19
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Sumario:We herein report a 48-year-old healthy woman who visited our hospital to investigate a 25-mm space-occupying lesion in the liver. The tumor was irregularly shaped and exhibited heterogeneous enhancement on dynamic computed tomography (CT). Whole-body positron emission tomography-CT showed an abnormal fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the liver tumor, with a maximum standardized uptake value of 12.82. During the ensuing three months, the tumor grew rapidly and the serum alpha-fetoprotein levels also rose; partial hepatectomy was therefore performed. Microscopic findings revealed a moderately-to-poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma in the normal liver.

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