A 54-year-old female patient with no medical history visited our hospital complaining of both
pretibial pitting oedema for 6 months, and abdominal distension for 1 month. Computed
tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed an 2.3cm sized tumour at segment
2 of the liver. Her Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) class was C (score 11) at the initial visit. She was
diagnosed as hepatocellular carcinoma (UICC stage II, BCLC stage D), and then she underwent
conservative treatment for 1 month. After one month of conservative treatment, her liver
function was improved to CTP class B (score 8), and then she underwent combination
treatment of transarterial chemoembolization and radiofrequency ablation. However, her
liver function was deteriorated gradually. She was transferred to other hospital for liver
transplantation eventually. (J Liver Cancer 2014;14:131-134)