Seeding of the rectus sheath with hepatocellular carcinoma after image guided percutaneous liver biopsy using coaxial
Vladislav V Tchatalbachev1, Daniel L Kirkpatrick2, Deiter J Duff3
1Department of Radiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
Journal of Radiology Case Reports
|May 1, 2015
Abstract:
Needle track seeding following image guided needle biopsy is a known but uncommon complication in the workup of hepatocellular carcinoma. We present the case of a 55 year-old male who was found to have a recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in the rectus sheath five years following a CT guided biopsy with the biopsy needle passing through the anterior abdominal wall muscles.
