[A case of hepatocellular carcinoma with gall bladder metastasis]

Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2008 Nov;35(12):2089-91.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

A 74-year-old male was admitted to Osaka University Hospital for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in April 2007. CT and MRI scan showed the tumor was located mainly in posterior segment and had portal vein tumor thrombus, and the wall of gall bladder was edematous and thick, but seemed not to be close to the main tumor. We performed an extended posterior segmentectomy, tumor thrombectomy and cholecystectomy. Pathological examination showed that poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma cells, which were same as the main tumor, existed in lamina propria and muscle layer of gall bladder, and invaded the submucosal vessels. So we diagnosed it as gall bladder metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Antibodies / blood
  • Antibodies / immunology
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / blood
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnostic imaging
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / pathology*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / surgery
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / virology
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / pathology
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / surgery
  • Hepatectomy
  • Hepatitis C / immunology
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery
  • Liver Neoplasms / virology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Failure

Substances

  • Antibodies
  • Biomarkers, Tumor