[Successful surgical treatment for peritoneal dissemination of liver cancer after hepatectomy--a case report].
A 58-year-old female was admitted to Ogikubo Hospital for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in April 2007. Pathological examination showed moderately differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma. Tumor marker increased the PIVKA-II level became 129 mAU/mL after the operation. FDG-PET was showed a solitary pelvic tumor sized about 2.5 cm in diameter. No other prominent metastatic lesions were demonstrated, so that a resection of intrapelvic tumor was performed in May 2008. The report which exhibited an asynchronism recurrence of peritoneal dissemination after hepatectomy is very rare. She has survived without a recurrence more than 13 months after the resection.
Yabe
Nobushige
N
Department of Surgery, Ogikubo Hospital, Keio University School of Medicine.
Murai
Shinji
S
Akatsu
Tomotaka
T
Inoue
Yoshitaka
Y
Shoji
Takahiro
T
Amemiya
Tetsu
T
Kitagawa
Yuko
Y
D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications