Journal of Liver Cancer

Hyung Joo Park

1 Article

A Case of Successful Pulmonary Resection in Patient with Lung Metastasis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Ik Yoon, Hyung Joon Yim, Jin Nam Kim, Sun Min Park, Jeong Han Kim, Seung Hwa Lee, Ju-Han Lee, Hwan-Hoon Chung, Hong Sik Lee, Hyung Joo Park, Sang Woo Lee, Jai Hyun Choi; Journal of the Korean Liver Cancer Study Group. 2008;8(1):81-85. Published online June 30, 2008

Abstract PDF: Lung is the most common site of extrahepatic metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Until now, there have been few reports about surgical resection for pulmonary metastasis from HCC, but the role and the indication of surgery for pulmonary metastasis remains unclear. We report a case of advanced HCC with pulmonary metastasis, which was effectively treated by metastasectomy. A 45-year-old male patient who had received TACE (transarterial chemoembolization) 14 times for hepatocellular carcinoma was found to have solitary metastasis in the right hilar area of the lung. Surgical metastasectomy was performed and pulmonary metastatic nodule was successfully removed. Primary tumor in the liver was effectively treated with TACE and follow-up CT (computed tomography) showed no viable tumor in the liver and the lung.