‘Away from home’ extra hepatic hepatocellular adenocarcinoma in gastric fundal submucosa

Authors

  • Mohd Helmi Mohd Samathani Department of Surgery, Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang, Malaysia
  • Azuddin Bin Mohd Khairy Department of Surgery, Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20213615

Keywords:

Extra hepatic hepatocecular carcinoma

Abstract

Patient presented with upper gastrointestinal bleeding which was scoped and diagnosed as bleeding gastrointestinal tumour intra procedure, subjected to laparotomy and wedge resection with unchanged postoperative diagnosis. Only later to find out the tissue was interpreted as metastases hepatoid adenocarcinoma without primary liver pathology. Thus likely point towards malignancy changes of undiagnosed ectopic liver tissue on gastric wall.

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2021-08-27

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