hepatocellular carcinoma in pregnancy with unusual presentations

Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Pregnancy withUnusual Presentations

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is very rare during pregnancy and has a worse prognosis in pregnant women compared to those who are not pregnant. We present a case of HCC in a 41- year-old pregnant patient who was referred to our academic hospital.The patient presented with chief complaints of abdominal pain, jaundice, edema and hypertension. Laboratory results were notable for elevated liver en...

[Hepatocellular carcinoma in pregnancy].

Primary hepatocellular carcinoma is a very rare disease, especially in association with a pregnancy. We report on a 22-year-old primigravida, who underwent Caesarean section in the 29th week of pregnancy in conjunction with tumour-reductive surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma. The further course of the disease was characterised by an early recurrence and lung metastases. Under palliative chemo...

Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Sheep

Hepatocellular carcinoma in a sheep

At necropsy of a five-year-old sheep, a pear shaped, lobular yellow-brownish mass measuring about 12 ×15 × 20 cm was found to involve the right hepatic lobe. Microscopic examination revealed two trabecularand solid patterns of neoplastic hepatocytes. In solid pattern, there were numerous tumoral giant cells thatcontain one or more large hyperchromatic bizarre-shaped nuclei scattered among clust...

Unusual extrahepatic metastatic sites from hepatocellular carcinoma.

The author examined unusual extrahepatic metastatic sites from liver hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) in autopsy and surgical files at our laboratory in the last 10 years. In autopsy cases (n=31), extrahepatic metastases were present in 21 cases (68%). The most common metastatic sites were lung (n=18). Unusual extrahepatic metastatic sites in the autopsy series were abdominal regional lymph nod...

Poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma with unusual tubular structures.

The patient was a 70 year old woman. A tumour in liver segment 8 arose in a background of cirrhotic liver with chronic hepatitis C and reached a size of 6.0 cm in six months. The patient’s serum concentration was raised (17101 ng/ml), and the tumour was suspected to be hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) based on various image findings. An extended liver anterior segmentectomy was performed, and ser...