Rationale: Ectopic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a rare disease that mostly originates from an ectopic liver. Patient concerns: The patient was admitted with upper abdominal distention for 3 months, which aggravated after meal. Diagnoses: A contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan revealed multiple abdominal masses. After exploratory laparotomy and histological examination, the patie...

INTRODUCTION Dried blood spot (DBS) collection is an appealing alternative to whole blood or plasma sampling, as it has technical and economic advantages over the latter. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at a Malaysian tertiary referral hospital from November 2009 to March 2010. One hundred and fifty paired specimens of DBS and plasma were analysed by th...

Previous studies have investigated extrahepatic multiple primary malignancy (EHPM) associated with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, its correlation with viral infection, such as hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV), has not been examined. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between EHPM and hepatitis infection in HCC patients. A total of 412 patients wh...

Background: High-risk behaviors in people with severe mental illnesses, such drug injection by shared equipment and unprotected sex, expose them to the risk of blood-borne infections as hepatitis B virus (HBV) C (HCV) infections. Objectives: This study aimed determine prevalence HBV HCV serum markers illnesses Tehran, Iran. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. I read with interest the recently published article written by Ahmadi et al. in Hepatitis Monthly. The authors found that four doses of 40 μg did not lead to significantly more seroconversion than three doses of 20 μg in chronic renal failure patients (CKD) not on dialysis...