Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female

Fibrolamellar variant of hepatocellular carcinoma (FLHCC) is a rare malignancy. Our patient presented to the hospital with increasing weight loss, decreased appetite, and night sweats. Imaging revealed a large liver mass and multiple pulmonary nodules concerning for metastasis. The patient eventuall...

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Autores principales: Walsh, Kevin, Ojha, Niranjan, Seth, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430102
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16486
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description Fibrolamellar variant of hepatocellular carcinoma (FLHCC) is a rare malignancy. Our patient presented to the hospital with increasing weight loss, decreased appetite, and night sweats. Imaging revealed a large liver mass and multiple pulmonary nodules concerning for metastasis. The patient eventually underwent interventional radiology (IR)-guided biopsy of the liver which revealed pathology consistent with FLHCC. The patient was discharged from the hospital and was scheduled for a follow up at an outpatient cancer center close to her family.
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spelling pubmed-83728262021-08-23 Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female Walsh, Kevin Ojha, Niranjan Seth, Rahul Cureus Internal Medicine Fibrolamellar variant of hepatocellular carcinoma (FLHCC) is a rare malignancy. Our patient presented to the hospital with increasing weight loss, decreased appetite, and night sweats. Imaging revealed a large liver mass and multiple pulmonary nodules concerning for metastasis. The patient eventually underwent interventional radiology (IR)-guided biopsy of the liver which revealed pathology consistent with FLHCC. The patient was discharged from the hospital and was scheduled for a follow up at an outpatient cancer center close to her family. Cureus 2021-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8372826/ /pubmed/34430102 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16486 Text en Copyright © 2021, Walsh et al. https://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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Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female
title Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female
title_full Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female
title_fullStr Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female
title_full_unstemmed Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female
title_short Fibrolamellar Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Young Female
title_sort fibrolamellar variant of hepatocellular carcinoma in a young female
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372826/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430102
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16486
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