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CASE REPORT article
Front. Oncol.
Sec. Gastrointestinal Cancers: Hepato Pancreatic Biliary Cancers
Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1548570
This article is part of the Research TopicNovel Approaches in the Management of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic CancerView all 7 articles
A case report of a rare intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with rectal metastasis
Provisionally accepted- Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a primary liver cancer with insidious onset, rapid progression, and poor prognosis. Lymphatic system is the main route of ICC distant metastasis, with lungs, adrenal glands and brain as the most common extrahepatic sites. However, extrahepatic metastases of ICC have rarely been reported in patients with rectal symptoms as initial symptoms, and the diagnosis relies on the specific immunohistochemical features of intestinal lesion biopsy. Herein, this study presents an incidental case of ICC with rectal metastasis to investigate its characteristics based on its diagnosis, metastasis and treatment.
Keywords: intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, Rectal metastasis, Cancer treatment;, Tumor marker, Pathological features
Received: 19 Dec 2024; Accepted: 16 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Jiang, Huang and Jiang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Quan Jiang, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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