Suzuki Hiroyuki, Shirono Tomotake, Niizeki Takashi, Sugawara Shuhei, Kusano Hironori, Kondo Reiichiro, Akiba Jun, Kawaguchi Takumi
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Department of Clinical Laboratory, National Hospital Organization Kokura Medical Center, Japan.
Intern Med. 2025 Mar 15;64(6):833-837. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.4177-24. Epub 2024 Aug 10.
Undifferentiated carcinoma of the liver is a rare and difficult-to-detect form of primary liver cancer. We herein report the first case of undifferentiated carcinoma of the liver in a 70-year-old Japanese woman with primary biliary cholangitis. The patient was diagnosed with cStage IVA liver cancer (85 mm in diameter) and treated with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy, 30 Gy radiotherapy, and 11 courses of on-demand transarterial chemoembolization. Although the hepatic tumor had markedly shrunk (from 85 to 20 mm), the patient ultimately died 16 months after the diagnosis due to rapid growth of lymph node metastases.
肝未分化癌是一种罕见且难以检测的原发性肝癌。我们在此报告首例发生于一名70岁原发性胆汁性胆管炎日本女性的肝未分化癌。该患者被诊断为cIVA期肝癌(直径85毫米),并接受了肝动脉灌注化疗、30 Gy放疗以及11个疗程的按需经动脉化疗栓塞术。尽管肝脏肿瘤明显缩小(从85毫米缩小至20毫米),但患者最终在诊断后16个月因淋巴结转移快速进展而死亡。