Diffuse Liver Metastasis of Small-Cell Lung Cancer Presenting as Acute Liver Failure and Diagnosed by Transjugular Liver Biopsy: A Rare Case in Whom Nodular Lesions Were Detected by Enhanced CT Examination
| Autor: | M. Iikura, Toru Igari, T. Masuda, M. Kobayakawa, T. Sakurai, M. Imamura, E. Kihira, M. Yanase, Naoyoshi Nagata, Shintaro Mikami, Y. Nozaki, Y. Kojima, S. Mishima, N. Masaki, Kazuhiro Watanabe, T. Nakayama, C. Yokoi, H. Sugiyama, H. Nakamura, Y. Egami, J. Akiyama, K. Hasuo, R. Koketsu, H. Kaname |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Enhanced ct business.industry Gastroenterology Liver failure Diffuse liver metastasis medicine.disease Small-cell lung cancer respiratory tract diseases Metastasis Nodular lesions Rare case medicine Transjugular liver biopsy lcsh:Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology Non small cell Radiology lcsh:RC799-869 Published online: April 2015 Lung cancer business Acute liver failure |
| Zdroj: | Case Reports in Gastroenterology Case Reports in Gastroenterology, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 81-87 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 1662-0631 |
| Popis: | Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a subgroup of lung cancer with a high frequency of liver metastasis, which is a predictor of poor prognosis. Diffuse liver metastases of SCLC with no visible nodular lesions in the liver when examined using computed tomography (CT) are relatively rare; however, a few cases with rapid progression to acute liver failure that were diagnosed after death have been reported. In this paper, we report a 63-year-old man with diffuse liver metastases of SCLC that were histologically diagnosed using a transjugular liver biopsy while the patient was alive, even though no lesions were visible during a contrast-enhanced CT examination. |
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