Table 2.

Timeline summarizing the main events of this case

Time from the date of the first visit to our department	Event
0 weeks	The patient was referred to our department for closer examination and treatment of a liver tumor serendipitously discovered by CT, although she had no liver symptoms
8 weeks	The patient had been treated by RFA for a single 16-mm-sized HCC lesion in liver S8
62 weeks	The patient had an EOB-MRI scan that showed no evidence of recurrent HCC within the liver, but noted a new lung mass in S10 of the right lung
70 weeks	The patient underwent a right lower lobectomy for a right lung tumor
228 weeks	Date of most recent outpatient visit. Even at this time, there were no findings of recurrent HCC.

RFA, radiofrequency ablation; HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma; EOB-MRI, gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine penta-acetic acid-enhanced MRI.