Hepatocellular carcinoma presenting as an extrahepatic mass:A case report and review of literature

作     者：Wei Kelly Wu Krutika Patel Chandrasekhar Padmanabhan Kamran Idrees 

作者机构：Department of SurgeryVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTN 37232United States Department of PathologyMicrobiology and ImmunologyVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTN 37232United States Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine SurgeryDepartment of SurgeryVanderbilt University Medical CenterNashvilleTN 37232United States 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology》 (世界胃肠肿瘤学杂志（英文版）（电子版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第16卷第5期

页      面：2241-2252页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Extrahepatic Metastasis Portocaval Lymph node Case report 

摘      要：BACKGROUND Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)is a primary liver tumor generally diagnosed based on radiographic *** disease is typically associated with increased tumor diameter,multifocality,and vascular *** report a case of a patient who presented with extrahepatic HCC metastasis to a portocaval lymph node with occult hepatic primary on computed tomography(CT).We review the literature for cases of extrahepatic HCC presentation without known hepatic lesions and discuss strategies to differentiate between metastatic and ectopic *** SUMMARY A 67-year-old male with remotely treated hepatis C was referred for evaluation of an enlarging portocaval,mixed cystic-solid *** CT evaluations demonstrated steatosis,but no cirrhosis or liver *** ultrasound demonstrated a normal-appearing pancreas,biliary tree,and *** needle aspiration yielded atypical *** differential diagnosis included duodenal or pancreatic cyst,lymphoproliferative cyst,stromal or mesenchymal lesions,nodal involvement from gastrointestinal or hematologic malignancy,or duodenal gastrointestinal stromal *** review by a multidisciplinary tumor board,the patient underwent open surgical resection of a 5.2 cm×5.5 cm retroperitoneal mass with pathology consistent with moderately-differentiated *** resonance imaging(MRI)subsequently demonstrated a 1.2 cm segment VIII hepatic lesion with late arterial enhancement,fatty sparing,and intrinsic T1 *** fetoprotein was 23.3 ng/*** patient was diagnosed with HCC with portocaval nodal ***:We surveyed the literature for HCC presenting as extrahepatic masses without history of concurrent or prior intrahepatic *** identified 18 cases of extrahepatic HCC ultimately found to represent metastatic lesions,and 30 cases of extrahepatic HCC found to be primary,ectopic *** Hepatocellular carcinoma can seldomly present with extrahepatic metastasis in the setting of