Synchronous liver cancers: A rare tumor combination in an elderly Japanese woman.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CC) may occur simultaneously in a person with primary liver cancer However HCC and CC arising from separate foci is extremely rare. This is a case presentation of a 66-year-old woman with primary combined HCC-CC, who had no risk factors for either tumor.
Shigaki
Dorothy M
DM
University of Hawai'i at Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Nekoba
Ashlee C
AC
Ide
Jasmine Y H E
JY
Hardman
John M
JM
Tokeshi
Jinichi
J
D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D018281:Cholangiocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D011859:Radiography