Lymphoepitelioma-like hepatocellular carcinoma: A case report and a review of the literature

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Lymphoepitelioma is a particular form of undifferentiat-ed carcinoma, characterized by a prominent lymphoid stroma, originally described in the nasopharynx. Lym-phoid strorna-rich carcinomas arising in other organs have been termed lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma (LELC). In the liver, primary LELCs are very rare, and the majority has been identified as cholangiocarcino-mas. Here a rare case of lymphoepithelioma-like hepa-tocellular carcinoma (HCC) is described. A 47-year old woman presented with abdominal pain. Ultrasonogra-phy revealed a liver nodule, 2.2 cm in diameter, local-ized in the right lobe, adjacent to the gallbladder. Viralmarkers for hepatic B virus (HBV), hepatic C virus (HCV)and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) were negative. The nod-ule was hypoechogenic. The patient underwent sur-gery, with resection of the nodule. Histology showedhepatocellular carcinoma, characterized by a promi-nent lymphoid infiltrate. At immunocytochemistry,tumor cells were reactive for Hep Par1 and glypican 3.Immunophenotyping of tumor infiltrating lymphooltesevidenced the predominance of CD8+ cytotoxic sup-pressor T cells. The postoperative clinical outcome was favorable and the patient was recurrence-free 15 mo after resection. This case, to the best of our knowl-edge, is the first reported non EBV and non cirrhosis-associated lymphoepithelioma-like hepatocellular carci-noma. The association between the lack of EBV infec-tion, the absence of cirrhosis, a "cytotoxic profile" of the inflammatory infiltrate and a good prognosis couldidentify a variant of lymphoepithelioma-like HCC with a favorable clinical outcome.
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