A 67-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for a space-occupying lesion in his liver found 1 week earlier. There were no obvious complaints in this patient and no obvious abnormalities were founded during the physical examination. He presented with a habit of heavy drinking (500 mL/day) for more than 40 years. There was no history of other neoplasms, no other history of past illness or any family illness in this patient.