ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the clinical features and CT appearances of primary adenosquamous carcinoma (ASC)of the liver and to improve the understanding of this disease for the sake of misdiagnosis.Methods The clinical features and CT appearances in 7 patients proved by operation and pathology were reviewed,retrospectively.Results All of the patients had dull pain in upper abdo-men,fever,chills and a long history of cholangitis and biliary calculi.In addition,all patients had not the history of hepatitis B and liver cirrhosis.And the serum AFP level was normal.The single lesion was found in every patient including 4 lesions in the left lobe of liver and the other 3 in the right lobe.Plain CT showed all masses with hypodensity,heterogeneity and unclear edge in liver,and multiple irregular and more hypodense areas in lesions were found.Slight heterogeneous honeycomb-like enhancement in the arterial phase was showed.In the venous phase,persistent honeycomb-like enhancement with uneven separations,nodular bulge and hypo-dense necrotic area was found.In the delayed phase,further honeycomb-like enhancement with hypodense necrotic area and obvious-ly enhanced nodular bulge was showed.The bile ducts in the liver and around the mass were dilated and had pneumatosis in company with lithiasis in choledochus and intrahepatic bile duct in 5 patients.Conclusion Primary hepatic ASC has certain clinical character-istics in older patients.The CT characteristic features included:honeycomb-like lesions with persistent,heterogeneous,delayed en-hancement and heterogeneous separation,uneven inner edge and enhanced nodular bulge.