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| CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 2005 | Volume
: 51
| Issue : 1 | Page : 41-42 |
Chest wall metastases from unknown primary hepatocellular carcinoma
SS Qureshi1, SV Shrikhande1, AM Borges2, Parul J Shukla1
1 Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India
2 Department of Pathology, S. L. Raheja Hospital, Mumbai, India
Correspondence Address:
Parul J Shukla
Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
India
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PMID: 15793338 
Metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) to the bones are common but bone metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma in the presence of a normal liver are an uncommon entity. A 50-year-old male patient presented with a rapidly growing tumour on the sternum. Biopsy of the lesion showed metastatic sternal tumour from a primary hepatocellular carcinoma. Radiological evaluation however, failed to detect a primary lesion in the liver. Bone metastases of hepatocellular carcinoma localized to the chest wall in the presence of a normal liver are scarcely reported as anecdotal case reports in the literature.
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