title: Hepatoblastoma in infancy and childhood: a clinical and pathological study of 32 cases.
abstract: During the twenty-nine-year period from June 1959 to October 1988, 32 infants and children with histology-proved hepatoblastoma were seen at the Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). The age at diagnosis ranged from four days to six years, with a mean of one year and eight months. Most of the patients (87.5%) were under the age of three. There was no sex predilection (16 males, 16 females). The most common presenting signs were an upper abdominal mass (71.9%) and/or abdominal distention (62.5%). Physically, all the patients revealed hepatomegaly, with or without mass. Laboratory abnormalities included primarily thrombocytosis (64.3%), elevated serum aspartate aminotransferase (75.0%), serum alanine aminotransferase (62.5%), cholesterol (78.3%) and alphafetoprotein (92.3%). According to the classification of Ishak and Glunz, 56.3% of these belonged to the epithelial type; the others belonged to the mixed type. During the follow-up period, 6 patients with complete resection of the tumor remained alive from 2 years to 17 years and 4 months. Twenty-two patients died from 8 days to 16 months after diagnosis. Four patients were lost to follow-up. The two-year survival rate was 21.4% (6/28). Complete resection of the tumor was the key treatment for achieving survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, R.O.C.
authors.forename: C Y
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Kuo
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: M Z
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Y W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: W T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal; D015996:Survival Rate; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed