[A case of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma effectively treated with 5-fluorouracil and high-concentration cisplatin suspended in lipiodol by short-term hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy].

: A 75-year-old Japanese man was admitted to our hospital for treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with HCV-related liver cirrhosis. He had been treated earlier with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in both another and our own hospital before this admission. At this time, abdominal CT revealed multiple HCCs (maximum 4.0 cm in diameter) located in hepatic S6, S5, and S8. An infused port system had been subcutaneously implanted, and he was treated with hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with 3 days' FPL (5-FU at a dose of 500 mg/m2 on days 1-3 and cisplatin (CDDP/IA call)-Lipiodol (LPD) suspension (10 mg/mL) at a dose of 50 mg/body on day 2) every 6-10 weeks. He was also treated with selective TACE for HCC that was supplied by extra-hepatic arterial branches. He had been treated with 3 courses of 3 days' FPL, and the selective TACE, HCCs in S6, S5 and S8 disappeared completely and multiple HCCs almost entirely vanished. During the 3-day treatment with FPL, his performance status (PS) was maintained and no severe side effects were observed. Although multiple recurrent HCC is potentially fatal and QOL is lost, hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with 3 days' FPL was effective and contributed to improve the patient's prognosis and QOL.