A Case of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Metastasis to Gingival Mucosa

Korean J Hepatol > Volume 8(4); 2002 > Article

The Korean Journal of Hepatology 2002;8(4): 495-499.

A Case of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Metastasis to Gingival Mucosa

Soo Jeong Choi, M.D., Young Seok Kim, M.D., Na Ri Kim, M.D., Soung Won Jeong, M.D., Sun Hae Lee, M.D., Jun Sung Jeong, M.D., Kwon Ho Ryu, M.D., Sang Woo Cha, M.D., Su Jin Hong, M.D., Chang Beom Ryu, M.D., Jong Ho Moon, M.D., Yun Soo Kim, M.D., Moon Sung Lee, M.D., Chan Sup Shim, M.D., Boo Sung Kim, M.D., Kye Won Kwon, M.D.* and Byoung Yong Kim, M.D.†

Department of Internal Medicine, Institute for Digestive Research, Pathology*, Dentistry†, Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

ABSTRACT

Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common causes of death in Koreans. Most cases of hepatocellular carcinoma are beyond the stage of curative resection at the time of diagnosis due to extrahepatic metastasis as well as wide distribution of tumor in the liver. The lung is the most common site of extrahepatic metastasis but metastasis to gingiva is very rare in hepatocellular carcinoma. We report a case hepatecellular carcinoma with gingival methststasis in a 59 year old male patient.(Korean J Hepatol 2002;8:495-499)

KeyWords: Neoplasm/Liver/Hepatocellular carcinoma, Gingival metastasis