A typical presentation of a hepatocellular carcinoma in a middle-aged patient

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A 54-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to experiencing a sudden, severe pain in the right shoulder after mild exercise. He had been losing weight over the previous month and had noticed a lump near his right shoulder. A chest X-ray showed a lytic lesion in the lateral half of his right collarbone (figure 1A) with a cortical break and the presence of a soft-tissue component. A chest CT scan showed the destruction of the bone and a 10x8x7 cm mass associated with the pathological fracture of the collarbone (figure 1B). The diagnostic workup was completed with an abdominal CT scan, which showed a large hepatic tumour, an alpha-fetoprotein blood test level of 1468 ng/mL (normal range <10 ng/mL) and a fine-needle aspiration cytology, which yielded the final diagnosis of disseminated disease of a hepatocellular carcinoma. Cells showed both TTF-1 and hepatocyte antigen positivity, whereas CK7,...

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