A Case of Primary Hepatic Malignant Lymphoma Treated by Liver Resection

Michihiro Narikiyo, Toshifumi Kanaizumi, Saiho Ko, Toshiyuki Fukuoka, Yoshiyuki Nakajima, Hiroshige Nakano

First Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University

A surgically resected case of primary hepatic malignant lymphoma, an extremely rare malignant neoplasm of the liver, is reported. A 67-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital complaining of general fatigue. She was diagnosed with small liver cancer with hepatitis C in segment V by computed tomography, celiac angiography, and other methods. Therefore, she underwent percutaneous ethanol injection therapy after needle biopsy of the tumor. The tumor, however, was histologically diagnosed as non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the liver and was removed by subsegmentectomy of the liver (S5). One year after surgical treatment, there was no evidence of recurrence.

Key words
primary hepatic malignant lymphoma, hepatectomy

Reprint requests
Michihiro Narikiyo First Department of Surgery, Nara Medical University
840 Shijocho, Kashihara, 634 JAPAN

Accepted
October 12, 1994

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