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Table 1 Test results and patient symptoms time

From: Epstein-Barr virus infection-associated cholangiocarcinoma: a report of one case and the review of literature

Time/site

Clinical features

Laboratory tests

Imageological examinations

Pathology

Treatment

On March 2021; Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University

Middle and upper abdominal pain

CA199: 101.0U/ml,

AFP: 4.5ng/ml

CT: multiple space-occupying lesions in the liver

PET-CT: multiple MTs, hilar lymph node metastasis in the liver

Pathology: poorly differentiated carcinoma of the liver

 

On April 2021 Hangzhou First People's Hospital

Intolerable abdominal pain, systemic skin yellowing with skin itching

ALT:242U/L

AST: 404 U/L

Total bilirubin 308.2 µmol/L

Prothrombin time: 15.1 s

Blood routine: WBC: 12.7 * 109/L, hemoglobin: 89 g/L, RBC: 3.48 * 1012/L

Hepatitis B surface antigen negative

CT: Malignant tumors were considered, with a high possibility of hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma

MRI: consider malignant tumor combine with intrahepatic multiple metastases

Abdominal ultrasound: multiple hypoechoic masses in liver, possibility of liver cancer

Pathology and immunohistochemistry: EBV infection-associated poorly differentiated cholangiocarcinoma

1. Ademetionine 1000 mg Qd for choleresis treatment

2. Vitamin K1 injection 30 mg Qd for thromboprophylaxis, cefoperazone

3. Sodium and sulbactam sodium injection 2g Q8h for anti-infection

4. Transfusion of type O RH positive suspended red blood cells

5. Ultrasound-guided biliary drainage for jaundice reduction treatment

On June 2021 Hangzhou Shulan Hospital

Abdominal pain

  

EBV infection-associated poorly differentiated cholangiocarcinoma. Regional lymph nodes: (groups 7, 8 and 9) 7/8 lymph node cancer metastases

1. Liver transplantation

2. Tacrolimus for anti-rejection

3. Entecavir for antiviral therapy

4. Gemcitabine 1.2 g combined with cis-platinum 30 mg for chemotherapy

On July 2021 Hangzhou First People's Hospital

Status post liver transplant, low-grade fever

Bile bacterial culture: enterococcus faecalis

Abdominal ultrasound: right pleural effusion, peritoneal effusion

 

Piperacillin tazobactam 4.5g Q8h Intravenous drip for anti-infection

On December 2021 At home

The condition deteriorated

   

Give up treatment

The patient died