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T Hasebe

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Spontaneous total necrosis of hepatocellular carcinoma: report of a case.

We report on a 50-year-old man with a liver mass that, when surgically resected, was found to be a hepatocellular carcinoma that had undergone spontaneous complete necrosis without previous treatment. Histologically, no viable tumor cells were observed. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient is alive without evidence of recurrence about 5 years after surgery. Spontaneous total necrosis of hepatocellular carcinoma without previous treatment is rare. In particular, spontaneous total necrosis of a hepatocellular carcinoma that has been proven by histologic examination of a surgically resected liver specimen is extremely rare; only three cases of spontaneous complete necrosis of hepatocellular carcinoma have been reported previously. In this report, we present our unusual case and discuss possible causes of spontaneous total necrosis or regression of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Carcinoma, Hepatocellular↗

Extra-tumor perineural invasion predicts postoperative development of peritoneal dissemination in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Peritoneal dissemination is one of the major patterns of postoperative recurrence and a major cause of death in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. To predict the development of postoperative peritoneal dissemination (PPD), correlations between the occurrence of PPD and clinicopathological factors were analyzed in 23 patients with pancreatic ductal carcinoma who underwent tumor resection and were carefully monitored after the operation. Fifteen cases (65.2%) developed PPD, but the other 8 cases (34.8%) did not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of PPD. Location of the tumor in the pancreatic tail or body (p = 0.0041, HR = 10.827, 95% CI = 2.126-55.127) and the presence of extra-tumoral perineural invasion (ETNI) (p = 0.0490, HR = 0.114, 95% CI = 0.013-0.990) were found to have predictive value for the development of PPD. These results suggested that intensive therapy selectively focused on the peritoneum in cases with ETNI, might prevent the development of PPD and reduce the side effects of treatment in cases without ETNI.

Adult↗