Hepatocellular carcinoma with regional lymphadenopathy caused by sarcoid-like reaction: a case report

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Previously reported HCC cases with SLR, including the present case

Author	Published	Sex	Age	Specimen with SLR	Treatment	Survival
Tomimatsu et al. [5]	1982	Male	55	Liver	Intra-arterial injection chemotherapy	25 days
Schmidt et al. [6]	1985	Female	14	Liver	Operation	2 years alive
Mourra et al. [7]	2001	Male	54	Liver	Transplanted (without preoperative diagnosis as malignancy)	Not mentioned
Present case	2021	Female	69	Liver and lymph nodes	Hepatectomy, lymphadenectomy	17 months

Only three cases of hepatocellular carcinoma with SRL have been reported prior to the present case. SRL was found only in the primary lesion in the three previous cases, while our case had findings both in the primary lesion and regional lymph nodes
HCC hepatocellular carcinoma, SLR sarcoid-like reaction