title: Post liver transplant presentation of needle-track metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma following percutaneous liver biopsy.
abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the few malignant tumours often treated without prior histological confirmation (in the patient with cirrhosis). Contrast-enhanced cross-sectional imaging is frequently diagnostic of HCC with a high degree of accuracy. However, on occasion, a liver biopsy is required, a complication of which can be needle-track metastasis. We present the case of a 57-year-old man who had previously undergone a liver transplant; he was found to have abdominal wall metastasis at the site of a prior percutaneous biopsy. This is the second case until now date of needle-track metastasis that presented following liver transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Joyce
authors.affiliation: Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Gavin A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Falk
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Namita
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gandhi
authors.affiliation: Transplantation Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
mesh_terms: D062005:Biopsy, Large-Core Needle / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D017568:Rectus Abdominis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed