title: Chest wall metastases from unknown primary hepatocellular carcinoma.
abstract: Metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to the bones are common but bone metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma in the presence of a normal liver are an uncommon entity. A 50-year-old male patient presented with a rapidly growing tumour on the sternum. Biopsy of the lesion showed metastatic sternal tumour from a primary hepatocellular carcinoma. Radiological evaluation however, failed to detect a primary lesion in the liver. Bone metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma localized to the chest wall in the presence of a normal liver are scarcely reported as anecdotal case reports in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Qureshi
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Shrikhande
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Shukla
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D013249:Sternum / Q000473:pathology*