Subcutaneous seeding after percutaneous ethanol injection of liver metastasis.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A 72-year-old cirrhotic woman underwent percutaneous ethanol injection treatment of a liver metastasis of unknown origin. A subcutaneous metastasis developed at the site of the punctures. Needle track seeding is a rare complication of fine-needle biopsy but has never--to the authors' knowledge--been reported after percutaneous ethanol injection. The possible causes of this complication are discussed.
Medical subject headings
- Adenocarcinoma
- Ethanol
- Injections, Intralesional
- Liver Neoplasms
- Neoplasm Seeding
- Neoplasms, Second Primary
- Skin Neoplasms