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Hepatocellular carcinoma complicating biliary cirrhosis caused by biliary atresia: report of a case
1Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kanazawa Medical University, Ishikawa, Japan.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
A case of hepatocellular carcinoma complicating biliary cirrhosis caused by biliary atresia is reported. The patient had persistent severe jaundice with hepatosplenomegaly. A liver tumor was suspected because of the elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein and was shown by ultrasonography at 6 years of age. The tumor was treated with percutaneous ethanol injection therapy (PEIT). Nine months after initiation of PEIT, the patient died of massive bleeding from a metastatic tumor.