Figure 4.

Patient 4. A 54-year-old man with long-standing chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and cirrhosis was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) during an annual routine check-up. Six weeks before his hospitalization in our center, he received transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for HCC. His performance status was 0 and his liver function was Child-Pugh A. He was diagnosed with a Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stage A? B? HCC and HBV-related cirrhosis. A: Computed tomography scan showed a single 17.5-cm tumor in segments 5, 6, 7, and 8 with well-defined margins and sporadic lipiodol depositions within the tumor; H: He underwent curative liver resection of HCC in July 2012, and is still alive.