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HCC Flashcards

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Risk factor of HCC

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Hep B/ C
Liver cirrhosis
Alcohol
NAFLD
Hereditary hemochromatosis
Autoimmune hepatitis
Metabolic liver disease

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What is the diagnostic CT feature for HCC?

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Arterial enhancement with rapid washout in portal venous phase

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Explain why HCC exhibit arterial enhancement and portal venous washout?

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HCC has arterial supply which makes up only 30% of liver arterial supply, thus HCC will light up in arterial phase and contrast will leave HCC while normal parenchyma received major supply of blood from portal venous system

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4
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What is Child Pugh criteria?

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Clinical criteria to predict mortality of cirrhotic patients

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5
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What are the components of Child Pugh criteria?

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Albumin

Bilirubin

INR

Ascites

Hepatic Encephalopathy

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6
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What accumulated points signify a Grade A Child Pugh and what is the associated one year survival rate?

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5-6 points

Well compensated disease

1 year survival rate 100%

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What accumulated points signify a Grade B Child Pugh and what is the associated one year survival rate?

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7-9 points

significant functional compromise

1 year survival rate of 80%

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What accumulated points signify a Grade C Child Pugh and what is the associated one year survival rate?

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10-15 points

Decompensated disease

40% 1 year survival

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What does an ICG 15 min retention rate >14% signify?

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Cannot withstand a formal/ extended hepatectomy

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What is a normal ICG retention rate?

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4%

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Milan’s criteria

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Criteria used to evaluate patients for orthopic liver transplantation

  • Solitary tumor <5cm
  • Multifocal < 3cm, each < 3cm
  • No gross vascular invasion or regional/distant metastasis
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12
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Curative treatments for HCC

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Resection

Local ablation

Transplant

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13
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What are the phases in a triphasic scan?

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Non-contrast

Arterial phase

Portal venous phase

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What is MELD?

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Model for End Stage Liver Disease

Assesses severity of liver disease, predicts 3 month mortality

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How to calculate MELD?

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Serum creatinine

Total bilirubin

INR

  • >15 benefit from transplant
  • >9 higher perioperative mortality 30%
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16
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What is the adequate future liver remnant in CT volumetry

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Normal liver: 20%

Post-chemo: 30%

Cirrhotic liver: 40%

17
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Indications for liver transplantation in HCC

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  • Child C
  • Meets Milan criteria
18
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Arguments for liver transplantation in HCC

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  • Pros:
    • better survival
    • lower recurrence
    • treats liver cirrhosis
  • Cons:
    • severe shortage of grafts
    • lengthens waiting list in cases where resection can be done
    • treatment morbidity & mortality
19
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What types of bridging therapy are there prior to transplantation?

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  • TACE
  • Ablation
  • Resection

Reduces dropout rate due to tumor growth with long waiting times > 6 months

20
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UCSF criteria

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  • Single nodule ≤ 6.5 cm or
  • 3 nodules ≤ 4.5 cm and with a total volume no greater than 8 cm
  • Give similar result to Milan’s
21
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Indications for percutaneous ablation in HCC

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  • Curative
    • Child’s A/B
    • small HCC < 2-3 cm
  • Palliative
    • Child’s A/B
    • solitary tumor <5 cm
    • two to three nodules < 3cm
22
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Arguments of RFA vs Resection in resectable tumors

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Resection better long term overall survival

RFA better if borderline liver function, lower post tx complications, shorter hospital stay but incomplete clearance of tumor at specific sites of liver

23
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What is radio-frequency ablation?

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High frequency radiowaves delivered through needle electrode to destroy tumor by local heating

24
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HIFU

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High Intensity Focused Ultrasound

  • extracorporeal
  • non-invasive

well tolerated in advanced cirrhosis and gross ascites

25
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What is TACE?

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Transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation:

  • intra-arterial administration of chemo drugs
  • carried by lipidol through feeding artery of tumor
  • effect potentiated by simultaneous delivery of embolic agent (ex. Gelfoam)
26
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Components of injected TACE agent

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  • Lipiodol
  • Cytotoxic drugs
  • Embolization agent
27
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DDX for cystic liver mass

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  • Benign:
    • Hemangioma
    • Hepatic cyst
    • Hepatic abscess
    • Hydatid cyst
  • Malignant:
    • Cystadenoma
28
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DDX for solid liver mass

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  • Benign:
    • Adenoma
    • Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
    • Lipoma
  • Malignant:
    • HCC
    • Cholangiocarcinoma
    • Metastasis
29
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Contraindications to liver transplant

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  • Active alcoholic/ substance abuse
  • Cancer other than liver
  • HIV
  • Advanced heart and lung disease
  • Massive liver failure associated with brain damage
  • Severe infection
30
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Imaging characteristics of hemangioma

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CT:

  • irregular contrast enhancement in early arterial phase followed by central filling in delayed phase
  • peripheral nodular
31
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Imaging characteristics of hepatic adenoma

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CT features identical to HCC. Arterial phase contrast enhancement, delayed phase washout

32
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Imaging characteristics of FNH

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  • CT/MRI: Central scarring in portal venous phase
  • Angiogram: spokewheel
33
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Imaging characteristics of liver secondaries

34
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Definition of portal hypertension

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Portal venous pressure > 5mmHg

Clinical significance >10mmHg

35
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Stigmata of chronic liver disease

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Jaundice

Spider naevi

Gynaecomastia

Palmer erythema

Flapping tremor

36
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Signs of portal hypertension

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Ascites

Splenomegaly

Caput medusa

37
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What portosystemic shunt leads to oesophageal varices?

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Left gastric vein to lower esophageal veins to azygous vein

38
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What portosystemic shunt leads to gastric varicoses?

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Short gastric veins

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