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Oct, 2013

Oxaliplatin-induced liver injury mimicking metastatic tumor on images: a case report.

Japanese journal of clinical oncology
  • Kaori Uchino
  • ,
  • Masayoshi Fujisawa
  • ,
  • Takanori Watanabe
  • ,
  • Yoshikatsu Endo
  • ,
  • Tetsuji Nobuhisa
  • ,
  • Yusuke Matsumoto
  • ,
  • Kyohei Kai
  • ,
  • Shiso Sato
  • ,
  • Kenji Notohara
  • ,
  • Akihiro Matsukawa

Volume
43
Number
10
First page
1034
Last page
8
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1093/jjco/hyt113

Oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy is widely used for advanced colorectal cancer treatment, but it occasionally induces liver injury that is characterized histologically by sinusoidal dilatation, hepatic plate atrophy and/or venular obstruction. Most of the patients do not reveal apparent radiological abnormalities, however. Here, we report the case of a 47-year-old man with a radiologically detectable mass-forming oxaliplatin-induced sinusoidal injury that mimicked multiple liver tumors. These mass lesions were found on computed tomography images after the administration of six cycles of folinic acid, fluorouracil and oxaliplatin therapy as adjuvant chemotherapy for Stage III rectal cancer. The patient had to undergo liver resection because imaging studies could not exclude metastases. The histological examination revealed that a resected mass lesion was composed of severe sinusoidal dilatation. Milder dilatation was also seen in the surrounding parenchyma. We diagnosed the patient as having an oxaliplatin-induced sinusoidal injury with severe deviation. As oxaliplatin is a standard agent in colorectal cancer therapy today, all clinicians and pathologists should be aware of such non-neoplastic lesions as one of the rare differential diagnoses of metastatic liver tumor, to prevent overtreatment.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/jjco/hyt113
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23958518
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1093/jjco/hyt113
  • Pubmed ID : 23958518

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