Hepatoblastoma in a 2-year-old girl with trisomy 18.
A very rare case of mosaic type trisomy 18 associated with hepatoblastoma is described. The patient underwent an extended right hepatic lobectomy at 2 years of age, and the resected tumor was diagnosed as a fetal type dominant hepatoblastoma. The results of chromosome analysis demonstrated that in the peripheral blood and skin, the trisomy 18 cells were 80% and 67%, respectively. On the other hand, although virtually 100% of the cells in the normal liver tissue were 46, XX, about one third of the cells were trisomy 18 in the tumor tissue. At 2 years and 9 months after the operation, the patient was generally healthy and had no evidence of recurrence.
Tanaka
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Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
Uemoto
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Asonuma
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Katayama
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Utsunomiya
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Akiyama
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Sasaki
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Ozawa
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D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002887:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 18; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007621:Karyotyping; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014314:Trisomy