Introduction: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the commonest primary tumor in the liver. It has been shown to have a strong association with hepatitis B and C. HCC not only commonly metastases to the other part of the liver but also commonly metastases to the lung. Involvements of upper gastrointestinal organs are rare. We report a case of hepatocellular carcinoma with duodenal metastases. Method: A 58 years old Chinese man with a background history of hepatitis B presented with right hypochondrium pain. No jaundice or any constitutional symptoms noted. Physical exams revealed irregular right hypochondrium mass. No ascites palpable. Most blood investigation was unremarkable except for a raised Alpha fetoprotein of 2920. Imaging studies confirmed a diagnosis of a segment 4B HCC with enlarged portal nodes and left portal vein thrombosis. Despite his Child�s score A, he was deemed inoperable and subjected to chemoembolization. During a subsequent follow up, he developed symptomatic anaemia with hemoglobin level of 6.2 g/dl. He developed multiple episodes of anaemia and Upper GI endoscopy shows a bleeding tumor at first part of duodenum extending to the second. Biopsy revealed as metastatic HCC. Results: Conclusions: Hepatocellular carcinoma is known to spread via haematogenous, lymphatics or trancoelomic. The usual sites of metastases are lung, regional lymph nodes and bones. Metastases via direct spread are uncommon hence the rarity of metastases to other upper gastrointestinal organs especially small bowel. This presentation imposed a treatment dilemma due to the limited approach to both primary and the metastases lesion.

Trauma is a major health problem in Malaysia. An understanding of the trauma epidemiology is important in developing a reliable trauma service. The aim of this study is to understand the pattern of trauma in our institution and to highlight the need for a dedicated trauma service. In this database, 142 cases were included. Majority were males (127, 89.4%). Most common injury types are motor vehicle accidents (87.3%) followed by falls (7.7%), and stabs (3.5%). Most Injury Severity Score (ISS) falls under moderate score with 38.7%. Mean Abbreviated Injury Score (AIS) was 3 with most involving the chest and 90% of the patients have injuries involving at least 2 regions. Average hospital length of stay (LOS) was 11.4 days ±11.5 SD; with most patients (71.8%) were discharged without permanent disability. The mortality rate was 9.2% with all having ISS>16. ISS found to be strongly related to longer hospital stay and worse outcome (0.59, p < 0.0001, 0.4, p < 0.0001). This data is equivalent to the compared registries from 4 different trauma centres. However, steps need to be taken to improve this database. In conclusion, this university hospital receives a reasonable load of trauma cases yearly which is equivalent with other trauma centres. The increasing trauma cases will benefit from an implementation of a dedicated trauma service. This trauma database needs more depth in its elements and better data handling to ensure a quality and complete registry.