Pancoast Tumor: A Rare presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  • Enam Murshed Khan Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India
  • Arpita Sutradhar Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India
Keywords: Pancoast tumor, Hepatocellular carcinoma, lung

Abstract

Lung is the first most common site for metastasis of hepatocellular carcinoma. Pancoast’s tumor is usually caused by adenocarcinoma of lung. Hepatocellular carcinoma is very notorious in remaining asymptomatic for prolonged time.  But metastatic Hepatocellular carcinoma presenting as apical lobe lung mass eroding the ribs (Pancoast’s tumor) is unusual. We, describe here a 66year old male who presented with left shoulder pain which was subsequently diagnosed to be due to metastatic tumor of upper lobe lung from liver primary. To our knowledge Pancoast’s syndrome due to metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma is rare and only two cases have been reported previously to the best of our knowledge. This case report will allow the clinicians to consider metastatic HCC as a differential for Pancoast’s tumor.

Author Biographies

Enam Murshed Khan, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India
Dept. of Pathology
Arpita Sutradhar, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India
Dept. of Pathology

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Published
2019-03-19
Section
Case Report