Unusual Initial Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Skeletal Metastases

Sonal Saran; Pushpinder Singh Khera; Rengarajan Rajagopal; Neeraj Mehta; Poonam Elhence

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Oncology, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Reports,2017,6,1,16-19.

DOI:10.5530/ogh.2017.6.1.3

Published:November 2016

Type:Case Report

Unusual Initial Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Skeletal Metastases

Sonal Saran,
Pushpinder Singh Khera,
Rengarajan Rajagopal,
Neeraj Mehta,
and Poonam Elhence

Sonal Saran¹, Pushpinder Singh Khera¹, Rengarajan Rajagopal¹, Neeraj Mehta¹, Poonam Elhence²

¹Department of Radiology, AIIMS Jodhpur, INDIA.

²Department of Pathology, AIIMS Jodhpur, INDIA.

Abstract:

Skeletal metastases from Hepatocellular carcinomas are rare and very rarely present as the initial symptom. We therefore report a case with multiple exclusively skeletal metastatic masses from hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with no prior history of chronic liver disease

Keywords:Hepatocellular carcinoma, Skeletal metastasis, Ultrasonography