Liver mass in a four-year old child: current considerations for diagnosis and treatment.
A case is presented of an embryonal sarcoma of the liver in a young child. The differential diagnosis of liver masses in children is reviewed, as well as the implications of diagnostic imaging studies for diagnosis, prognosis, staging, and the choice of treatment. The use of diagnostic imaging for guiding interventional diagnostic procedures and certain palliative approaches is also discussed.
Applebaum
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Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Los Angeles.
Frost
D B
DB
Kagan
A R
AR
Steckel
R J
RJ
D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008637:Mesenchymoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D011859:Radiography