A patient with a large hepatocellular carcinoma alive 13 years after repeated transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and hepatectomy

摘要

We describe a rare case of a large hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)in a patient who survived 13 years after repeated transcatheter arterial chemoembolization(TAE)and hepatectomy. The patient was a 41-year-old woman found in March 1985 to have a large HCC, measuring 14×12 cm in diameter and associated with obstruction of the main portal trunk. She underwent TAE 8 times over a period of 1 years. The serum alpha-fetoprotein level decreased from 18342 to 1871 ng/ml.