Open AccessA Rare Nonhepatocytic Primary Liver Neoplasm with an Unusual Presentation: Ossifying Malignant Mixed Epithelial and Stromal Tumor
Author(s) -
Albina Venus,
Sarah Mehta,
Sumathi Natarajan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of medical and paediatric oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 0975-2129
pISSN - 0971-5851
DOI - 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_55_17
Subject(s) - medicine , neoplasm , presentation (obstetrics) , stromal tumor , biopsy , immunohistochemistry , rare disease , pathology , stromal cell , adjuvant chemotherapy , core biopsy , disease , radiology , cancer , breast cancer
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.