Imaging of primary liver carcinosarcoma scintigraphically; a case report

Primary liver carcinosarcoma is a very rare disease. There have been only a few cases described to date, none of which has been imaged by bone scintigraphy. A 69-year-old man who developed right back pain and weight loss was admitted to our hospital. Tenderness of the right upper abdomen, hepatomegaly, and a giant mass were the main physical examination signs. Abdominal ultrasonography showed a large lobulated heterogeneous echogenic solid mass with multiple cystic areas of varying size and a highly echogenic region that had posterior acoustic shadowing within the mass in the right lobe of the liver. Labeled erythrocyte imaging and (99m)Tc-nanocolloid liver-spleen scan were performed to exclude hemangioma, showing a large intrahepatic photon deficient area. (99m)Tc-methylene diphosphonate (MDP) bone scintigraphy revealed heterogeneous, irregular and dense activity accumulation thought to be osteoblastic activity in the liver mass. Postsurgical pathological diagnosis revealed "carcinosarcoma".

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