TY - JOUR
T1 - Needle tract implantation of hepatocellular carcinoma after ultrasonically guided needle liver biopsy
T2 - A case report
AU - Hamazaki, K.
AU - Matsubara, N.
AU - Mori, M.
AU - Gochi, A.
AU - Mimura, H.
AU - Orita, K.
AU - Lygidakis, N. J.
PY - 1995/1/1
Y1 - 1995/1/1
N2 - Cancer spread along the needle tract following fine needle biopsy is reported to be a rare complication. We report a case of subcutaneous implantation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) following ultrasonically (US)-guided fine needle liver biopsy. The patient, a 53-year-old male was found to have a HCC at the medial segment of the liver confirmed by fine needle biopsy. Three year and four months after segmentectomy, the patient felt a subcutaneous growing lump at the previous biopsy site. The tumor was resected and confirmed histologically as HCC. We herein document other reports of such an occurrence following fine needle biopsy of HCC in Japan and consider this problem in liver biopsies.
AB - Cancer spread along the needle tract following fine needle biopsy is reported to be a rare complication. We report a case of subcutaneous implantation of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) following ultrasonically (US)-guided fine needle liver biopsy. The patient, a 53-year-old male was found to have a HCC at the medial segment of the liver confirmed by fine needle biopsy. Three year and four months after segmentectomy, the patient felt a subcutaneous growing lump at the previous biopsy site. The tumor was resected and confirmed histologically as HCC. We herein document other reports of such an occurrence following fine needle biopsy of HCC in Japan and consider this problem in liver biopsies.
KW - Hepatocellular carcinoma
KW - Needle tract implantation
KW - US-guided liver biopsy
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M3 - Article
C2 - 8751221
AN - SCOPUS:0028808755
SN - 0172-6390
VL - 42
SP - 601
EP - 606
JO - Acta hepato-splenologica
JF - Acta hepato-splenologica
IS - 5
ER -
