Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver tumor, and its incidence has been on the rise worldwide. It is a common cause of cancer-related death. HCC carries a poor prognosis and is challenging to manage, especially when diagnosed in advanced stages. We present a rare case of HC...

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Autores principales: Aly, Ragia, Gupta, Sachin, Gupta, Ruby, Jorge, Vinicius M, Ebraheem, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754419
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9421
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author Aly, Ragia
Gupta, Sachin
Gupta, Ruby
Jorge, Vinicius M
Ebraheem, Ahmed
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description Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver tumor, and its incidence has been on the rise worldwide. It is a common cause of cancer-related death. HCC carries a poor prognosis and is challenging to manage, especially when diagnosed in advanced stages. We present a rare case of HCC in liver cirrhosis secondary to viral hepatitis C (HCV) infection, presenting with large tumor thrombus extending to the right atrium treated with lenvatinib. 
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spelling pubmed-73870772020-08-03 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report Aly, Ragia Gupta, Sachin Gupta, Ruby Jorge, Vinicius M Ebraheem, Ahmed Cureus Oncology Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver tumor, and its incidence has been on the rise worldwide. It is a common cause of cancer-related death. HCC carries a poor prognosis and is challenging to manage, especially when diagnosed in advanced stages. We present a rare case of HCC in liver cirrhosis secondary to viral hepatitis C (HCV) infection, presenting with large tumor thrombus extending to the right atrium treated with lenvatinib.  Cureus 2020-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7387077/ /pubmed/32754419 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9421 Text en Copyright © 2020, Aly et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gupta, Sachin
Gupta, Ruby
Jorge, Vinicius M
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report
title Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report
title_full Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report
title_fullStr Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report
title_short Hepatocellular Carcinoma Presenting With Inferior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending to the Right Atrium: A Case Report
title_sort hepatocellular carcinoma presenting with inferior vena cava tumor thrombus extending to the right atrium: a case report
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32754419
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9421
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