Pseudotumor inflamatório do fígado: diagnóstico diferencial de carcinoma hepatocelular

• Autor(a) principal: Kalil,Antonio Nocchi
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Outros Autores: Franco,Tiago B., Furian,Roque
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69912002000200010
• topic: Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Benign liver tumor

The authors present a rare case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver whose differential diagnosis with hepatocellular carcinoma - in some cases - is only possible with the histological examination. In this case, a female patient, 38 years-old was suffering from abdominal pain, enlarged liver, thinning, tiredness and fever; alpha-fetoprotein, the liver function tests, amylase and lipase were normal. Abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography showed a node in the right liver lobe. The patient was submitted to a right hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma. Histological examination showed an inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver. The patient was discharged from the hospital on the seventh postoperative day; she is asymptomatic for three years.