CASE REPORT- POST RENAL TRANSPLANT HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA

Post renal transplant setting is conducive for occurrence of malignancy due to the uninhibited proliferation of oncogenic viruses, lack of immune surveillance and intense immunosuppression. We are reporting a patient who had Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection pretransplant and underwent successful renal transplantion ,his younger brother being kidney donor. At 8 years post transplant, he developed calculous cholecystitis for which surgery was planned. During that evaluation he was found to have multifocal hepatocellular carcinoma