Primary Hepatic Lymphoma Presenting as an Acute Abdomen in a Young Female Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review.
Walid E AbdelrahimKamal E MohamedSalwa O MekkiEltaib A SaadPublished in: Case reports in surgery (2019)
We report a rare case of primary hepatic lymphoma (PHL) in a hepatitis B virus- (HBV-) infected young female patient who presented with right upper abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting for a few days. The preoperative diagnosis was difficult due to the rarity of the disease and the presence of a solitary hypodense mass in the left lobe of the liver on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan with a normal alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) and negative cytology. She underwent an uneventful extended left hemihepatectomy, and the surgical biopsy revealed a PHL-of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) type-with negative resection margins. She received adjuvant combination chemotherapy and remained disease-free with normal serial radiology over a 2-year follow-up period.
Keyphrases
- diffuse large b cell lymphoma
- hepatitis b virus
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- liver failure
- rare case
- dual energy
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted
- epstein barr virus
- positron emission tomography
- abdominal pain
- magnetic resonance
- case report
- fine needle aspiration
- image quality
- diffusion weighted imaging
- early stage
- middle aged
- ultrasound guided
- high grade
- squamous cell carcinoma
- patients undergoing
- aortic dissection
- locally advanced
- single cell
- machine learning