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Article: Combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma: A clinicopathological study

TitleCombined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma: A clinicopathological study
Authors
KeywordsClinicopathological features
Combined hepatocellular- cholangiocarcinoma
Survival
Issue Date1998
PublisherBlackwell Publishing Asia.
Citation
Journal Of Gastroenterology And Hepatology, 1998, v. 13 n. 1, p. 34-40 How to Cite?
AbstractCombined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma (HCC-CC) is an uncommon form of primary liver cancer having features of both hepatocellular and biliary epithelial differentiation. We reviewed 21 cases of this tumour diagnosed between 1972 and 1996 (patient age range 16-79 years; mean patient age 49.7 years; 18 male and three female patients). Histologically, the majority (n = 18) of tumours were 'mixed' tumours, in which areas of hepatocellular and biliary epithelial differentiation were intimately mixed within the same tumours. Two patients had separate tumours in which discrete nodules of HCC and CC occurred in the same livers. One patient had a 'fibrolamellar' tumour that histologically simulated the fibrolamellar variant of HCC, but some of the tumour cells were mucin-producing cells. Of the 21 cases, mucin was demonstrable in 16 and, in the few mucin-negative tumours, electron microscopic studies confirmed the presence of the dual differentiation. The tumours frequently exhibited an invasive character with frequent venous permeation, direct invasion into adjacent liver parenchyma and tumour microsatellite formation, similar to that of ordinary HCC. Histological evidence of cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis was present in 77.8% of patients and 75% of patients were hepatitis B surface antigen positive. Raised serum α-fetoprotein (AFP) levels (above 300 ng/mL) were present in 61.5% of patients and AFP was detected immunohistochemically in 55% of tumours. The overall survival times of patients with HCC-CC were short. In conclusion, HCC-CC showed clinical and pathological features more akin to those of ordinary HCC than to CC.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/88646
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dc.contributor.authorNg, IOLen_HK
dc.contributor.authorShek, TWHen_HK
dc.contributor.authorNicholls, Jen_HK
dc.contributor.authorMa, LTen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2010-09-06T09:46:06Z-
dc.date.available2010-09-06T09:46:06Z-
dc.date.issued1998en_HK
dc.identifier.citationJournal Of Gastroenterology And Hepatology, 1998, v. 13 n. 1, p. 34-40en_HK
dc.identifier.issn0815-9319en_HK
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dc.description.abstractCombined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma (HCC-CC) is an uncommon form of primary liver cancer having features of both hepatocellular and biliary epithelial differentiation. We reviewed 21 cases of this tumour diagnosed between 1972 and 1996 (patient age range 16-79 years; mean patient age 49.7 years; 18 male and three female patients). Histologically, the majority (n = 18) of tumours were 'mixed' tumours, in which areas of hepatocellular and biliary epithelial differentiation were intimately mixed within the same tumours. Two patients had separate tumours in which discrete nodules of HCC and CC occurred in the same livers. One patient had a 'fibrolamellar' tumour that histologically simulated the fibrolamellar variant of HCC, but some of the tumour cells were mucin-producing cells. Of the 21 cases, mucin was demonstrable in 16 and, in the few mucin-negative tumours, electron microscopic studies confirmed the presence of the dual differentiation. The tumours frequently exhibited an invasive character with frequent venous permeation, direct invasion into adjacent liver parenchyma and tumour microsatellite formation, similar to that of ordinary HCC. Histological evidence of cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis was present in 77.8% of patients and 75% of patients were hepatitis B surface antigen positive. Raised serum α-fetoprotein (AFP) levels (above 300 ng/mL) were present in 61.5% of patients and AFP was detected immunohistochemically in 55% of tumours. The overall survival times of patients with HCC-CC were short. In conclusion, HCC-CC showed clinical and pathological features more akin to those of ordinary HCC than to CC.en_HK
dc.languageengen_HK
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Asia.en_HK
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Gastroenterology and Hepatologyen_HK
dc.subjectClinicopathological features-
dc.subjectCombined hepatocellular- cholangiocarcinoma-
dc.subjectSurvival-
dc.subject.meshAdulten_HK
dc.subject.meshAgeden_HK
dc.subject.meshBile Duct Neoplasms - mortality - pathology - ultrastructureen_HK
dc.subject.meshBile Ducts, Intrahepatic - pathologyen_HK
dc.subject.meshCarcinoma, Hepatocellular - mortality - pathology - ultrastructureen_HK
dc.subject.meshCholangiocarcinoma - mortality - pathology - ultrastructureen_HK
dc.subject.meshFemaleen_HK
dc.subject.meshHumansen_HK
dc.subject.meshImmunohistochemistryen_HK
dc.subject.meshLiver Neoplasms - mortality - pathology - ultrastructureen_HK
dc.subject.meshMaleen_HK
dc.subject.meshMiddle Ageden_HK
dc.subject.meshNeoplasms, Multiple Primary - mortality - pathology - ultrastructureen_HK
dc.titleCombined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma: A clinicopathological studyen_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
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dc.identifier.emailNg, IOL:iolng@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.emailNicholls, J:nicholls@pathology.hku.hken_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1440-1746.1998.tb00542.x-
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dc.identifier.volume13en_HK
dc.identifier.issue1en_HK
dc.identifier.spage34en_HK
dc.identifier.epage40en_HK
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