Cholangiocellular carcinoma that produced both granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor and parathyroid hormone-related protein.
Sohda T, Shiga H, Nakane H, Watanabe H, Takeshita M, Sakisaka S.
Third Department of Medicine, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka, 814-0180, Japan. tetsuro@fukuoka-u.ac.jp
A 56-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of consciousness disturbance. Abdominal computed tomography revealed a large low-density tumor in the left lobe of the liver. He presented with marked leukocytosis and hypercalcemia with high levels of serum granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) and parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-rP). A diagnosis of cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC) of the liver was confirmed by histological examination of an autopsy specimen. The tumor cells showed positivity for both G-CSF and PTH-rP with immunohistochemical staining. These results suggest that the tumor was producing both G-CSF and PTH-rP. This paraneoplastic G-CSF and PTH-rP production caused by CCC is very rare. Such cases must be followed up carefully, since tumors associated with paraneoplastic syndrome progress rapidly, resulting in a poor prognosis.
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PMID: 16850133 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]