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Hindi Case Report
An Atypical Initial Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma as Spinal Cord Compression
Swathi Sangli1,3, Pavan Kumar Mankal2*, Evan Fowle4, Jean Abed1, Eileen O’Reilly3 and Donald P. Kotler2
1Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
2Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
3Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
4Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Corresponding Author:
- Pavan Kumar Mankal
MD, MA, Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Roosevelt
Hospitals Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1000 10th Ave.
New York, NY, 10019, USA
Tel: 212-523-4400
E-mail: pmankal@chpnet.org
Received Date: April 04, 2016; Accepted Date: April 18, 2016; Published Date: April 25, 2016
Citation: Sangli S, Mankal PK, Fowle E, Abed J, O’Reilly E, et al. (2016) An Atypical Initial Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma as Spinal Cord Compression. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 6:416. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000416
Copyright: © 2016 Singli S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
A young male with quiescent hepatitis B presented with sub-acute onset of lower limb weakness found to have an incidental hepatoma that had metastasized to the vertebrae causing an oncologic emergency in the form of spinal cord compression, a rare initial presentation in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
