Hepatoblastoma in an 82-year-old man. An autopsy case report.
An autopsy case of adult hepatoblastoma is presented. The patient was an 82-year-old male with chronic hepatitis of 7 years' duration. The liver tumor was detected 6 months before death. Autopsy revealed a large hepatic tumor occupying about 80% of the entire liver. Histologically, the tumor showed typical features of mixed epithelial- and mesenchymal-type hepatoblastoma. The epithelial component consisted of fetal and embryonal cell types. The mesenchymal component showed primitive spindle-shaped cells with various degrees of cellularity. Chondroid areas and a few foci of osteoid formation were also present.
Oda
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Department of Pathology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Honda
K
K
Hara
M
M
Arase
Y
Y
Ikeda
K
K
Kumada
H
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000473:pathology*; D005355:Fibrosis; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male