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Case Reports
. 2015 Nov;42(12):1824-6.

[A Case of a Metastatic Liver Tumor from a Thymic Carcinoma Detected During a Cesarean Section]

[Article in Japanese]
Takashi Morinaka  1 , Dan Takeuchi, Akihiro Noro, Takashi Saotome, Kotaro Yoshimura, Takaaki Kaneko, Seiki Miura, Junichiro Kamiya, Yosuke Ashizawa, Bunshiro Akikusa, Akira Ogata
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Case Reports

[A Case of a Metastatic Liver Tumor from a Thymic Carcinoma Detected During a Cesarean Section]

[Article in Japanese]
Takashi Morinaka et al. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2015 Nov.

Abstract

A 40-year-old pregnant woman who had previously been diagnosed with uterine myoma underwent cesarean section. During the operation, a tumor thought to be uterine myoma was found to be an extrauterine tumor arising from the upper abdomen. After the delivery of the fetus, a staging CT scan was performed, which revealed a huge, 18 cm, hepatic tumor in the left lateral segment, a mediastinal tumor with calcification, and multiple lung nodules. She underwent a left hepatic lobectomy and a wedge resection 8 days after the delivery. The initial pathological diagnosis was moderately differentiated neuroendocrine tumor (NET). However, as a primary hepatic NET is extremely rare, further immunohistochemical staining was performed. The tumor was positive for p63, CD5, c-kit, and bcl-2, indicating a diagnosis of thymic carcinoma with liver and lung metastases.

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