A Case Presentation of Well-Differentiated Hepatocellular Carcinoma With No Sign of Liver Disease

Cureus. 2024 Jun 4;16(6):e61635. doi: 10.7759/cureus.61635. eCollection 2024 Jun.

Abstract

The type of liver cancer that occurs most frequently is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The majority of cases of HCC are secondary to alcoholic cirrhosis or viral hepatitis. The presence of malignant cells with modest nuclear atypia that resemble normal hepatocytes and the lack of bare nuclei in the smears, which shows the neoplastic hepatocytes' capacity, are characteristics of a well-differentiated HCC plasma membrane to tolerate smearing. We present the case of an 83-year-old male patient with a well-differentiated HCC, who had no etiological factors and no signs of alcohol cirrhotic liver, or any symptoms of liver disease which are the main causes of the HCC.

Keywords: computed tomography (ct ); hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc); histopathology (hp); liver biopsy; mature hepatocytes.

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