Clinical Oncology: Case Reports

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Amanda Rivera-Begeman Author

Subjects of specialization
cancer, cancer oncology, Carcinogenesis

Affiliation
The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School, Department of Diagnostic Medicine, U.S.A

Biography

Dr. Amanda Rivera-Begeman is working as scientist and professor at DThe University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School, Department of Diagnostic Medicine, U.S.A. The author has specalization in cancer, cancer oncology, chemotherapy, Carcinogenesis, Chemotherapy. His main subjects of interest are pediatric, perinatal, obstetric and autopsy pathology. An evolving interest includes neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative pathology with particular interest in autism.


Publications

Case Report Open Access

Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Liver

Author(s):

Paul Guzik*, Andrew Gdowski, Christopher Kim, Amanda Rivera-Begeman, Hannah Kay, Declan Fleming and Gail Eckhardt (USA)
 

Primary Squamous Cell carcinoma (SCC) of the liver is a very rare diagnosis with limited reported cases in the current literature. The pathogenesis of the disease is unclear, but is generally considered to be correlated with the long-term inflammation or metaplasia of biliary epithelial cells and congenital cyst of the liver. The current viewpoint is that surgical resection of the tumor, preoperative or postoperative subsidiary chemoembolization, radiotherapy and generalized chemotherapy may extend a patient’s survival.The prognosis is extremely poor with few patients surviving after 12 months, irrespective of treatment.Here, we report a case of hepatic primary squamous cell carcinoma. 

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