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ArticleInternal medicine (Tokyo, Japan)2025

A Rare Case of Undifferentiated Carcinoma of the Liver Arising in the Context of Primary Biliary Cholangitis.

Hiroyuki Suzuki, Tomotake Shirono, Takashi Niizeki, Shuhei Sugawara, Hironori Kusano, Reiichiro Kondo, Jun Akiba, Takumi Kawaguchi

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Article in Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Hiroyuki SuzukiDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Tomotake ShironoDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Takashi NiizekiDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Shuhei SugawaraDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Hironori KusanoDepartment of Clinical Laboratory, National Hospital Organization Kokura Medical Center, Japan.
Reiichiro KondoDepartment of Pathology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Jun AkibaDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology, Kurume University Hospital, Japan.
Takumi KawaguchiDivision of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Undifferentiated carcinoma of the liver is a rare and difficult-to-detect form of primary liver cancer. We herein report the first case of undifferentiated carcinoma of the liver in a 70-year-old Japanese woman with primary biliary cholangitis. The patient was diagnosed with cStage IVA liver cancer (85 mm in diameter) and treated with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy, 30 Gy radiotherapy, and 11 courses of on-demand transarterial chemoembolization. Although the hepatic tumor had markedly shrunk (from 85 to 20 mm), the patient ultimately died 16 months after the diagnosis due to rapid growth of lymph node metastases.

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CarcinomaLiver Cirrhosis, BiliaryLiver NeoplasmsAgedFatal OutcomeFemaleHumanschemotherapyliver cancerprimary biliary cholangitisundifferentiated carcinoma of the liver

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PMID39135246
PMCPMC11986297

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