A Case of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Metastasis to Gingival Mucosa.

Author: Soo Jeong CHOI ¹ ; Young Seok KIM ; Na Ri KIM ; Soung Won JEONG ; Sun Hae LEE ; Jun Sung JEONG ; Kwon Ho RYU ; Sang Woo CHA ; Su Jin HONG ; Chang Beom RYU ; Jong Ho MOON ; Yun Soo KIM ; Moon Sung LEE ; Chan Sup SHIM ; Boo Sung KIM ; Kye Won KWON ; Byoung Yong KIM
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1. Department of Internal Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. bskim@schbc.ac.kr
Publication Type:Case Report ; English Abstract
Keywords: Neoplasm/Liver/Hepatocellular carcinoma; Gingival metastasis
MeSH: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular/*secondary; English Abstract; Gingival Neoplasms/*secondary; Human; Liver Neoplasms/*pathology; Male; Middle Aged
From:The Korean Journal of Hepatology 2002;8(4):495-499
CountryRepublic of Korea
Language:Korean
Abstract: Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common causes of death in Koreans. Most cases of hepatocellular carcinoma are beyond the stage of curative resection at the time of diagnosis due to extrahepatic metastasis as well as wide distribution of tumor in the liver. The lung is the most common site of extrahepatic metastasis but metastasis to gingiva is very rare in hepatocellular carcinoma. We report a case hepatecellular carcinoma with gingival methststasis in a 59 year old male patient.