Kim et al reported a case of alcoholic liver cirrhosis with a focal nodular hyperplasia-like (FNH-like) lesion (1). Such lesions were formerly reported by Terada et al (2) and by Nakashima et al (3,4 (Fig. 1)
Case Presentations
. However, the lesion was not definitively diagnosed as an HCC because a hypervascular HCC is usually a moderately or poorly differentiated type. These lesions were treated with anti-cancer drugs with a reservoir.In 1997, the patient died from hematemesis due to rupture of esophageal varices. Autopsy revealed multiple hyperplastic nodules in the liver. The liver was not cirrhotic. Figure 2 shows the macroscopic features and low magnification view of histological specimen of one lesion of this patient. Parenchymal hepatic tissue (Fig. 3a) showed hypercellularity (nuclear crowding)