A Case Report of Scirrhous Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Tohru Masuda, Takao Mori, Tetsuya Ikeda, Ichiko Shimono, Shigeru Moriyama, Satoru Umegae, Norikazu Nagata

The Department of Surgery, Hazu Social Insurance Hospital

A 69-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with dull upper abdominal pain and appetite loss. Ultrasonography and CT showed about a 7 cm hepatic tumor in the S5 area. Abdominal angiography showed that anterior inferior branch of the hepatic artery and portal vein was dislocated. Extended right lobectomy was performed. In pathologically, the tumor was diagnosed as a scirrhous type of hepatocellular carcinoma. Flow cytometric analysis showed the tumor had an aneuploid pattern. The patient died of bone metastasis on the 8th month after the operation. This case was considered to be highly malignant.

Key words
scirrhous type of hepatocellular carcinoma, flow cytometry

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Tohru Masuda Department of Surgery, Hazu Social Insurance Hospital
10-8 Hazuyamacho, Yokkaichi, 510 JAPAN

Accepted
October 11, 1990

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