Mixed hepatocellular carcinoma and high-grade neuroendocrine neoplasm with ambiguous histopathological features: a case report.

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Tác giả: Makoto Abe, Noriyoshi Fukushima, Kaoru Hirabayashi, Nobuo Hoshi, Sayuri Hoshi, Chisato Takagi, Kentaro Tsuji, Saho Wakamatsu

Ngôn ngữ: eng

Ký hiệu phân loại: 149.7 Rationalism and related systems and doctrines

Thông tin xuất bản: Japan : Medical molecular morphology , 2025

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Bộ sưu tập: NCBI

ID: 59022

Well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor (NET) and poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) are distinct entities with different biological behavior. However, difficult cases showing equivocal morphology have been reported in some organs. Herein, we report a case of primary hepatic neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN) with ambiguous histopathological features admixed with conventional hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A 70-year-old man with untreated chronic hepatitis B underwent left medial sectionectomy because of two incidental liver masses. On pathological examination, one of the resected tumors had intermingling NEN and HCC components. The NEN component consisted of relatively uniform tumor cells proliferating in trabecular, cord-like, or solid patterns with peripheral nuclear palisading. The tumor cells were immunopositive for synaptophysin, chromogranin A, cluster of differentiation 56 (CD56), and focally hepatocyte paraffin 1. p53 showed wild-type expression. The Ki-67 labeling index was 27% at the hot spot. Eleven months after the surgery, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage without evidence of recurrent liver cancer. The intermediate degree of differentiation and the modest proliferative activity can challenge the distinction between NEC and NET G3. While the coexisting HCC indicates NEC rather than NET in a pathogenetic viewpoint, such ambiguous tumor may not be as aggressive as typical NECs.
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