Post liver transplant presentation of needle-track metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma following percutaneous liver biopsy. (9th June 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Joyce, Daniel; Falk, Gavin A; Gandhi, Namita; Hashimoto, Koji
• Is Part Of: BMJ case reports. Volume 2014
• Publication Date: 2014-06-09
• Subjects: Medicine -- Case studies -- Periodicals; 610.5
• DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-010076
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-790X

Abstract

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.