Rare and lacking typical clinical symptoms of liver tumors:Four case reports
作者机构:Department of Hepatobiliary SurgeryAnkang Central HospitalAnkang 725000Shaanxi ProvinceChina
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10期
页 面:4264-4273页
学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题:Liver tumor Primary hepatic fibrosarcoma Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumor Focal hepatic steatosis Solitary necrotic nodule of the liver Lack of typical clinical symptoms Case report
摘 要:BACKGROUND Rare liver tumors(RLTs)have an extremely low likelihood of forming,and some have been recorded only in isolated *** lack of normal clinical symptoms in RLTs makes preoperative diagnosis extremely challenging,which results in frequent *** present case report helps enhance our ability to recognize and treat uncommon liver tumor *** SUMMARY We describe four distinct examples of rare liver tumor *** cases were all true cases with no conventional clinical signs or imaging *** all patients,hepatic occupancy was discovered on physical examination,which raised the preoperative suspicion of hepatic *** tumors were surgically removed,and postoperative histology and immunohistochemistry were performed to confirm the *** first patient had primary hepatic *** second case involved a primary hepatic neuroendocrine *** two patients had malignant liver tumors,and both had extremely satisfactory surgical *** third case involved focal hepatic steatosis,and the fourth case involved a single necrotic nodule in the *** two patients had benign liver tumors,but they had already undergone surgery and did not require any postoperative *** The number of patients with RLTs is small,and the clinical and imaging results are *** diagnosis is challenging,and patients are sometimes mistakenly diagnosed with liver cancer,which leads to unnecessary surgical therapy in certain individuals.