Background: Characterizing multiple hepatic lesions on cross-sectional imaging, particularly differentiating abscesses from metastatic lesions, can be challenging.
Case Presentation: A male aged 53 years with a history of chromophobe renal cell carcinoma presented with fevers and abdominal pain and was found to have multiple hepatic lesions concerning for hepatic abscesses. The lesions initially evaded diagnosis on imaging, laboratory tests, and biopsy, but ultimately were determined to be a rare case of metastatic chromophobe renal cell carcinoma of the liver.
Introduction: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of primary liver cancers. It is an aggressive neoplasm with dismal outcome because most of the patients present with an advanced-stage disease, which precludes curative surgical options. Therefore, these patients require systemic therapies that typically induce small improvements in overall survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastric cancer is a common malignancy and remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths, though its incidence is in decline in most developed countries. One of the major challenges of treating gastric cancer is tumor heterogeneity, which portends a high degree of prognostic variance and the necessity for different treatment modalities. Tumor heterogeneity is at least in part due to divergent differentiation of tumor cells to clones harboring different molecular alterations.
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