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Chest-wall metastasis in a patient who underwent liver transplantation due to hepatocellular carcinoma.

Onen A, Sanli A, Karacam V, Karapolat S, Gokcen B, Acikel U

9 Eylul University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Izmir, Turkey.

Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common malignancy. It may cause extrahepatic metastases through haematogenous or lymphatic dissemination or direct invasion. Furthermore, methods such as fine-needle aspiration biopsies performed to obtain a diagnosis or percutaneous ethanol injection and radiofrequency hyperthermia performed for treatment may also cause tumour dissemination. We present a 52-year-old male patient whose isolated right chest wall metastasis developed after liver transplantation due to hepatocellular carcinoma. We performed chest wall reconstruction after the mass was removed.

Published 14 March 2008 in Heart Lung Circ, 17(2): 156-8.
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