Rapidly Lethal Ruptured Hepatocellular Carcinoma With Disseminated Peritoneal Carcinomatosis on FDG PET/CT

We present a very unusual initial presentation of occult HCC with peritoneal carcinomatosis secondary to liver rupture in a 70-year-old man with known nonalcoholic steatohepatitis–cirrhosis, best appreciated on FDG PET/CT. Our patient died a few days later. Tumor rupture is a rare but usually rapidly lethal complication of HCC.
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