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Case Report
Concurrent occurrence of primary hepatocellular and cholangiocellular carcinoma in
the different part of the liver: a case report

Xinying Li, Wei Jiang, Tiecheng Feng, Zhiming Wang

Department of Surgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China

Received April 3, 2012; accepted May 26, 2012; Epub August 22, 2012; Published September 15, 2012

Abstract: Combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma which shows features of both hepatocellular and biliary epithelial
differentiation is a rare form of primary liver cancer. The rarer is that the two types of cancer occur in the different lobe of the same liver
concurrently.

Keywords: Hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocellular carcinoma, liver, diagnosis, treatment


Address all correspondence to:
Dr. Zhiming Wang
Department of General Surgery
Xiangya Hospital, Central South University
Xiangya Road 87, Changsha, China 410008.
Tel: + (86)13808462382
E-mail: joylu20xx@csu.edu.cn OR: "Li, Xinying" <xli15@tulane.edu>