Acute intermittent porphyria and primary liver-cell carcinoma.
A patient known with acute intermittent porphyria who developed primary liver-cell carcinoma is described. No other risk factors were found. A possible association of acute intermittent porphyria with the development of primary liver-cell carcinoma has been suggested in recent, mainly Scandinavian literature. So far this association has never been described in The Netherlands.
Thunnissen
P L
PL
Department of Internal Medicine, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Meyer
J
J
de Koning
R W
RW
D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D011164:Porphyrias / Q000150:complications*