- Acute Pulmonary Infarction Complicated with Thromboembolism as the First Manifestation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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Chae June Lim, ji Yun Hong, Chung Hwan Jun, Sung Kyu Choi, Sung Bum Cho
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J Liver Cancer. 2017;17(2):163-167. Published online September 30, 2017
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17998/jlc.17.2.163
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Abstract
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- Acute pulmonary infarction by tumoral thromboemboli is an extremely rare fatal complication
as the first clinical manifestation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patient with tumoral thrombi
in the inferior vena cava. The treatment method has not been established and shown to very
poor prognosis despite of trying various modalities such as anticoagulation, radiotherapy and
thromboembolectomy. Here, we describe a 74-year-old man who was diagnosed with HCC that
presented as pulmonary thromboembolism and subsequent pulmonary infarction as the first
manifestation.
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