A Rare Nonhepatocytic Primary Liver Neoplasm with an Unusual Presentation: Ossifying Malignant Mixed Epithelial and Stromal Tumor

Abstract

We present a case of a rare liver neoplasm – Ossifyimg malignant mixed epithelial and stromal tumor. This entity has well-delineated morphological and immunohistochemical features, and so can be easily diagnosed, even with core biopsy tissue. Our patient was a middle-aged male, which is unheard of in the literature of this disease. He had a bad recurrence of the disease after surgical removal of the tumor, unlike the previously reported cases with the same diagnosis, where the patients lived for almost a decade after surgery without recurrence. This neoplasticdisease can thus take a destructive course, and a change in treatment methods such as neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy should be thought of, to make it more beneficial and effective.

Keywords

Adenocarcinomatous - mixed - nonhepatocytic - ossifying - primary - sarcomatous

Publication History

Article published online:
23 June 2021

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