Journal of Liver Cancer

2 "Small hepatocellular carcinoma"

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A Case of Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma Less Than 1 cm: Yun Jeong Jo, Young Kul Jung, Dong Hae Chung, Oh Sang Kwon, Yun Soo Kim, Duck Joo Choi, Ju Hyun Kim; Journal of the Korean Liver Cancer Study Group. 2012;12(1):42-46. Published online February 28, 2012

Abstract PDF: 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.

Small Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Dysplastic Nodule: Chang Wook Kim, Eun Sun Jung, Jong Young Choi, Jeong Won Jang, Si Hyun Bae, Seung Kew Yoon, Chang Don Lee, Kyu Won Chung, Hee Sik Sun; Journal of the Korean Liver Cancer Study Group. 2004;4(1):50-54. Published online June 30, 2004

Abstract PDF: Dysplastic nodule (DN) is considered as precancerous lesion of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). There are several evidences to support the theory about multistep progression of hepatocarcinogenesis. Recently we experienced a patient with HCC of the odule-in-nodule pattern, namely small HCC within DN, which supported the multistep theory of hepatocarcinogenesis. The tumor was seen as a 3 cm, arterial enhancing mass with delayed wash-out patterns in the segment Ⅶ at helical CT. The patient was treated by surgical resection. A 3.0×2.5 cm mass was seen in the resected specimen. A 2.2×1.5 cm, smaller nodule was observed within this mass, i.e. the odule-in-nodule pattern. Microscopically, various grades of HCC foci were seen within high grade DN. Because DN does not always progress to HCC, further studies are needed to evaluate what kind of DN has the high possibility of progressing of HCC at last.

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