Successful surgical treatment for peritoneal dissemination of liver cancer after hepatectomy--a case report
Yabe, N.; Murai, S.; Akatsu, T.; Inoue, Y.; Shoji, T.; Amemiya, T.; Kitagawa, Y.
Gan to Kagaku Ryoho. Cancer and ChemoTherapy 36(12): 2099-2101
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 0385-0684 PMID: 20037336 Document Number: 637177
A 58-year-old female was admitted to Ogikubo Hospital for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in April 2007. Pathological examination showed moderately differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma. Tumor marker increased the PIVKA-II level became 129 mAU/mL after the operation. FDG-PET was showed a solitary pelvic tumor sized about 2.5 cm in diameter. No other prominent metastatic lesions were demonstrated, so that a resection of intrapelvic tumor was performed in May 2008. The report which exhibited an asynchronism recurrence of peritoneal dissemination after hepatectomy is very rare. She has survived without a recurrence more than 13 months after the resection.