- A Case of Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma Less Than 1 cm
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Yun Jeong Jo, Young Kul Jung, Dong Hae Chung, Oh Sang Kwon, Yun Soo Kim, Duck Joo Choi, Ju Hyun Kim
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Journal of the Korean Liver Cancer Study Group. 2012;12(1):42-46. Published online February 28, 2012
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Abstract
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- Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most important causes of cancer death in South Korea. Approximately two
thirds of the patients are diagnosed in the advanced stage with multiple metastasis and underlying liver dysfunction, so they are
not suitable to undergo curative resection. Small HCC has no consensus about diagnostic criteria but became known early stage
HCC that means good prognosis. Cases of small HCC have been increasing with the progress of diagnostic methods. We
experienced a case of incidentally found small HCC less than 1 cm from liver cirrhosis by liver dynamic imaging, so reported it.
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