Poorly Differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Low-risk Patient with an Otherwise Normal Liver.

Poorly Differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Low-risk Patient with an Otherwise Normal Liver. Intern Med. 2019 Oct 17;: Authors: Ogasawara N, Saitoh S, Denpou H, Kinowaki K, Akuta N, Suzuki F, Hashimoto M, Fujiyama S, Kawamura Y, Sezaki H, Hosaka T, Kobayashi M, Suzuki Y, Arase Y, Ikeda K, Fujii T, Kumada H Abstract We herein report a 48-year-old healthy woman who visited our hospital to investigate a 25-mm space-occupying lesion in the liver. The tumor was irregularly shaped and exhibited heterogeneous enhancement on dynamic computed tomography (CT). Whole-body positron emission tomography-CT showed an abnormal fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the liver tumor, with a maximum standardized uptake value of 12.82. During the ensuing three months, the tumor grew rapidly and the serum alpha-fetoprotein levels also rose; partial hepatectomy was therefore performed. Microscopic findings revealed a moderately-to-poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma in the normal liver. PMID: 31619599 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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