SMALL HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA WITH INTRAVASCULAR TUMOR-GROWTH INTO THE RIGHT ATRIUM

Authors
NOGUCHI H HIRAI K ITANO S IJUIN H KAJIWARA M SAKATA K ONO N HIDAKA R ARITAKA T ARAKAWA M TANIKAWA K
Citation
H. Noguchi et al., SMALL HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA WITH INTRAVASCULAR TUMOR-GROWTH INTO THE RIGHT ATRIUM, Journal of gastroenterology, 29(1), 1994, pp. 41-46
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Journal title
Journal of gastroenterology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09441174
Volume
29
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
41 - 46
Database
ISI
SICI code
0944-1174(1994)29:1<41:SHWITI>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
A 66-year-old man with ascites and marked edema in the lower extremiti es was suspected of having secondary Budd-Chiari syndrome due to prima ry liver cancer, based on imaging diagnosis, i.e., ultrasonography, co mputed tomography, and inferior venacavogram. At autopsy, an encapsula ted small liver cancer was found to have extended into the inferior ve na cava and right atrium. There have been few reports of small hepatoc ellular carcinoma with intravascular tumor growth into the right atriu m.