Deugnier Y M, Guyader D, Crantock L, Lopez J M, Turlin B, Yaouanq J, Jouanolle H, Campion J P, Launois B, Halliday J W
Clinique des Maladies du Foie and INSERM U 49, CHRU Pontchaillou, Rennes, France.
Gastroenterology. 1993 Jan;104(1):228-34. doi: 10.1016/0016-5085(93)90856-8.
Although liver cancer arises frequently in the course of genetic hemochromatosis (GH), it has not been previously studied in a large series of patients with well-defined GH.
The bioclinical and pathological data from 1 cholangiocarcinoma and 53 hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) complicating GH in 32 untreated and 22 de-ironed patients are reported.
This study (1) adds three new well-documented cases of HCC in noncirrhotic but only fibrotic hemochromatotic liver, (2) shows the high prevalence (83%) of proliferative and often dysplastic (70%) iron-free foci in the nontumorous liver of untreated patients, and (3) emphasizes the significant increase of cirrhosis (81% vs. 28%) and of associated noniron-related risk factors, mainly chronic alcoholism (48% vs. 25%) and tobacco smoking (50% vs. 18%) in patients with HCC compared with matched hemochromatotic patients without HCC.
These data (1) suggest that iron-free foci may be markers of an early stage of HCC in GH and (2) supply the basis for defining a cost-effective policy for the screening of HCC in GH patients.
尽管肝癌在遗传性血色素沉着症(GH)病程中经常出现,但此前尚未在大量明确诊断为GH的患者中进行研究。
报告了32例未经治疗和22例去铁治疗患者中1例胆管癌和53例并发GH的肝细胞癌(HCC)的生物临床和病理数据。
本研究(1)新增了3例记录充分的非肝硬化但仅纤维化血色素沉着性肝病合并HCC的病例,(2)显示未经治疗患者的非肿瘤性肝脏中增殖性且常发育异常(70%)的无铁病灶患病率很高(83%),(3)强调与匹配的无HCC血色素沉着症患者相比,HCC患者的肝硬化(81%对28%)及相关非铁相关危险因素显著增加,主要是慢性酒精中毒(48%对25%)和吸烟(50%对18%)。
这些数据(1)表明无铁病灶可能是GH中HCC早期阶段的标志物,(2)为制定经济有效的GH患者HCC筛查策略提供了依据。