Key result
Advanced HCC with right atrial tumor thrombus confers poor prognosis with limited surgical options.
Why the study?
Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombus metastasis to the right atrium is rare, generally considered inoperable, and has a poor prognosis.
Highlights the management of rare cases of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombus metastasis to the right atrium.
May guide individualized care in rare HCC with right atrial thrombus; hypothesis-generating and should not change practice.
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the fifth most common cancer worldwide. Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with tumor thrombus metastasis to the right atrium is rare, generally considered inoperable, and has a poor prognosis. This article describes the management of two patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and incidental findings of tumor thrombus invasion into the right atrium.
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Leong et al. (2019) studied this question. Right atrial tumor thrombus metastasis from advanced hepatocellular carcinoma is a rare, generally inoperable condition associated with a poor prognosis.
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