CASE REPORT
A Case of Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular
Carcinoma Presented with Elevated Serum
Vitamın B12 Levels
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Yuzuncuyil University School of Medicine, Van, Turkey
Publication date: 2011-07-11
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Ahmet Cumhur Dülger
Yuzuncuyil University School of Medicine,
Departments of Gastroenterology, Van, Turkey
Eur J Gen Med 2011;8(3):250-252
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ABSTRACT
Fibrolamellar carcinoma of the liver is a variant of hepatocellular carcinoma.
It is relatively common in young people and has equal gender
distribution. The disease presents as abdominal pain, weight loss and
malaise. In several reports of fibrolamellar liver tumors, high cobalamin
level has been demonstrated in the human’s serum. Therefore,
serum cobalamin has been found as a good tumour marker for fibrolamellar
hepatocellular carcinoma. Elevated production or decreased
elimination of haptocorrin may play an important role for this phenomen.
For early fibrolamellar carcinoma, surgical resection, when
feasible, is the gold standart for the treatment. In advanced stage of
the disease; single-modality treatments (recombinant interferon α-2b
or sorafenib) can be tried. Herein, we report a case of metastatic
fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma that was presented with high
vitamin B12 levels and continued subcutaneous recombinant interferon
α-2b thrice-weekly.