Hepatocellular carcinoma is one of the most common malignancies reported in ost of the Africa and South-east Asia. As hepatocellular carcinoma metastases well to distant site, half of the cases metastases to distant site at diagnosis. Hepatocellular carcinoma usually spread to regional lymph nodes around porta hepatis via lyphatics and venous metastasis can occur via intrahepatic vein. The usual sites of extrahepatic metastasis are lung, local lymph nodes, adrenal glands and bones, but epidural metastasis is very rare. Although the prognosis of the hepatocellular carcinoma was very poor in the past, the survival time seemed to be prolonged by early diagnosis and improvement of medical therapy. Therefore the importance of metastatic lesion of the hepatocellular carcinoma might be reemphasized. Recently we experienced a case of the hepatocellular carcinoma who developed paraplegia suddenly. MRI revealed ovoid epidural rnass at 6th and 7th dorsal vertebra level posteriorly. After emergency operation, the resected mass was confirmed metaststic hepatocellular carcinoma. (Korean J Gastroenterol 1997;30:119-125)