A Rare Case of Non-cirrhotic Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Female Adolescent: Diagnostic and Multimodal Treatment Challenges in a Low-Resource Setting
Yatrasana Singh, Barry Raghunanan, Ravi Maharaj · 2025
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Yatrasana Singh, Barry Raghunanan, and Ravi Maharaj report a rare liver cancer case in a teenager in a 2025 paper. Liver cancer of this type is uncommon in adolescents and rarer still without cirrhosis. Transplant can cure it, but that option is scarce in low-resource regions.
The fifteen-year-old girl arrived with vague pain, fatigue, and a swollen abdomen. Scans showed a large liver mass with a clot in a major vein. Tissue study suggested the cancer, with some features of a childhood tumor type. Her tumor size fit transplant criteria used abroad. The team instead chose drug treatment first, then surgery, given local limits. Her course shows how teams adapt gold-standard care when the gold standard is out of reach.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yatrasana Singh, Barry Raghunanan, Ravi Maharaj |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |