Multiple hepatic inflammatory pseudotumors with elevated alpha-fetoprotein and alpha-fetoprotein lectin 3 fraction with various PET accumulations: a case report.

Masataka MarunoKatsunori ImaiYosuke NakaoYuki KitanoTakayoshi KaidaKosuke MimaHiromitsu HayashiYo-Ichi YamashitaYoshiki MikamiHideo Baba

Published in: Surgical case reports (2021)

We report a very rare case of hepatic IPT with elevated serum AFP and AFP-L3, mimicking HCC. Clinicians should include this rare neoplasm in the differential diagnoses of hepatic tumors even when the serum markers for HCC are elevated.

Keyphrases

rare case
palliative care
oxidative stress
low grade
pet ct
positron emission tomography