Oral Cavity Metastasis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Following Liver Transplantation

Overview

Journal Case Rep Transplant

Publisher Wiley

Specialty General Surgery

Date 2012 Dec 6

PMID 23213609

Citations 4

Authors

Nicolas Goldaracena

Mariela Barreto

Gabriel Casas

Margarita Anders

Ricardo Mastai

Lucas McCormack

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Abstract

Liver transplantation (LT) remains the only cure for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in many cases. Over many years, most centers have applied the Milan criteria for selecting cirrhotic patients with HCC for LT. In a new era where several transplant groups are pushing the limits of transplanting HCC outside Milan criteria as an aggressive approach with promising results, we present interesting images of a patient that presented a unique and rare site of HCC metastasis after 36 months of liver transplantation.

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