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INTERESTING CASE OF THE MONTH January 2009 FNA (US guided) Portal vein thrombus, 51-year old female with hepatic tumor: well differentiated hepatocarcinoma in thrombus.
The smears show a great number of hepatocytes, with anisocytosis and anisonucleosis, some of them in groups, and others as isolated cells. Most of them have bile pigment in their cytoplasm. In conclusion, the FNA detected that the thrombus was of malignant nature, from a welll differentiated hepatocarcinoma. This interesting procedure has been documented previously: de Sio I. et al: J. Gastroenterol Hepatol 10:662-665, 1995; Dusenbery D, Dodd GD 3rd, Carr BI.
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