Unusual presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma: Case report and review of literature

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary cancer of the liver and a major cause of mortality globally. Atypical presentation of HCC can present a diagnostic challenge. We, therefore, present a rare case of hepatocellular carcinoma fungating through the anterior abdominal wall with co...

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Autores principales: Loyal, Poonamjeet, Gitau, Samuel, Manji, Soraiya, Mwanzi, Sitna, Weru, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8749401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35047206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20210033
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author Loyal, Poonamjeet
Gitau, Samuel
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Weru, John
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description Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary cancer of the liver and a major cause of mortality globally. Atypical presentation of HCC can present a diagnostic challenge. We, therefore, present a rare case of hepatocellular carcinoma fungating through the anterior abdominal wall with concomitant lung and brain metastases in a young patient with non-cirrhotic liver but positive chronic hepatitis B serology.
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spelling pubmed-87494012022-01-18 Unusual presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma: Case report and review of literature Loyal, Poonamjeet Gitau, Samuel Manji, Soraiya Mwanzi, Sitna Weru, John BJR Case Rep Case Report Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary cancer of the liver and a major cause of mortality globally. Atypical presentation of HCC can present a diagnostic challenge. We, therefore, present a rare case of hepatocellular carcinoma fungating through the anterior abdominal wall with concomitant lung and brain metastases in a young patient with non-cirrhotic liver but positive chronic hepatitis B serology. The British Institute of Radiology. 2021-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8749401/ /pubmed/35047206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20210033 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Unusual presentation of hepatocellular carcinoma: Case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8749401/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35047206
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20210033
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