Fibrolamellar carcinoma in a young patient.
نویسنده
چکیده
This is a twenty two years old male patient with weight loss, abdominal pain, hepatomegaly and elevated liver function tests. The serological markers for viral B, C hepatitis and tumoral markers were normal. The CT scan demonstrated a hipodense, nodular lesion in the liver and the histological examination was reported as a typical fibrolamellar hepatocarcinoma
منابع مشابه
Aggressive surgical management of recurrent lymph node and pancreatic head metastases of resected fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma: a case report.
CONTEXT Fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma is a rare liver tumor with the propensity to metastasize to the lymph nodes months or years after initial surgery. However, its metastatic spread to the pancreas was previously reported only in a child. CASE REPORT We present an unusual case of a young female patient who was repeatedly treated by surgical excision of abdominal and mediastinal lym...
متن کاملHigh serum vitamin B12 binding capacity as a marker of the fibrolamellar variant of hepatocellular carcinoma.
Ten (9.3%) of 107 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma had considerably increased serum unsaturated vitamin B12 binding capacity. All 10 were young (mean 12 years), had no serum alpha-fetoprotein, and no underlying cirrhosis; all had a longer survival compared with patients without increased serum unsaturated vitamin B12 binding capacity in the study. Seven of the 10 patients had fibrolamella...
متن کاملCombined Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Fibrolamellar Carcinoma Presenting as Two Adjacent Separate Lesions in a Young Boy: First Case Report from Asia
We report a rare case of combined hepatocellular carcinoma and fibrolamellar carcinoma arising in a noncirrhotic liver, in a 14-year-old boy who underwent right hepatectomy. We discuss the clinicopathological and immunohistochemical features and the clinical outcome in this unusual tumor.
متن کاملFibrolamellar Carcinoma: A Distinct Variant of Hepatocellular Carcinoma That Is Still Surrounded by Unveils Mysteries
Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FL-HCC) is overall a quite rare variant of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that is intriguing and poorly understood at same time. In humans, it affects essentially the young population (children and young adults) in the peculiar absence of underlying liver diseases. FLHCC has distinctive clinico-pathologic features with metastases frequently found in the regional lymph n...
متن کاملFibrolamellar Carcinoma: 2012 Update
Fibrolamellar carcinomas are a unique type of primary liver cancer. They occur most commonly in children and young adults. Their etiology remains a mystery, as they are not associated with chronic liver disease. Fibrolamellar carcinomas are not indolent tumors, but have an overall better prognosis than typical hepatocellular carcinomas, in part because of the younger age at presentation and the...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of hepatology
دوره 1 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002