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A patient with hepatocellular carcinoma who developed invasive pulmonary aspergillosis after corticosteroid treatment.

Shintaro SatoSho YamadaTomotaka NishizawaTomohiro ObaRie KawabeHideaki YamakawaKeiichi AkasakaMasako AmanoHidekazu Matsushima
Published in: Clinical case reports (2021)
Lung or head and neck cancer have been indicated as solid cancers associated with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), but the relationship with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is unknown. We report a case of HCC in which the presence of cirrhosis and corticosteroid administration may have caused the development of IPA.
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