Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
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Case Report

An Atypical Initial Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma as Spinal Cord Compression

Swathi Sangli^1,3, Pavan Kumar Mankal^2*, Evan Fowle⁴, Jean Abed¹, Eileen O’Reilly³ and Donald P. Kotler²

¹Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

²Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

³Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

⁴Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospitals, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Corresponding Author:

Pavan Kumar Mankal
MD, MA, Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Roosevelt
Hospitals Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1000 10th Ave.
New York, NY, 10019, USA
Tel: 212-523-4400
E-mail: pmankal@chpnet.org

Received Date: April 04, 2016; Accepted Date: April 18, 2016; Published Date: April 25, 2016

Citation: Sangli S, Mankal PK, Fowle E, Abed J, O’Reilly E, et al. (2016) An Atypical Initial Presentation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma as Spinal Cord Compression. J Gastrointest Dig Syst 6:416. doi:10.4172/2161-069X.1000416

Copyright: © 2016 Singli S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

A young male with quiescent hepatitis B presented with sub-acute onset of lower limb weakness found to have an incidental hepatoma that had metastasized to the vertebrae causing an oncologic emergency in the form of spinal cord compression, a rare initial presentation in HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

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