[Primary liver cancer coincident with schistosomiasis japonica].
The etiologic relationship of a parasitic liver disease to primary liver cancer has long been debated, and reported is a case that has been encountered of a primary liver cancer coincident with Schistosomiasis japonica. A fifty-nine year-old-man was diagnosed as having a primary liver cancer complicated with liver cirrhosis. A posterior segmentectomy was performed and a microscopic examination revealed a primary liver cancer with multiple ovae of Schistosoma japonicum in the fibrous stroma of the portal spaces. Discussed is the etiologic relationship of Schistosomiasis japonica to the primary liver cancer.
Uetsuji
S
S
Dept. of Surgery, Kansai Medical Univ.
Yamamura
M
M
Okuda
Y
Y
Yamamichi
K
K
Yamamoto
M
M
D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications; D008109:Liver Diseases, Parasitic / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012554:Schistosomiasis japonica / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology