Adult hepatoblastoma: case report and review of the literature.
We report a case of hepatoblastoma in a 24-year-old woman. The tumour was removed by an extended right lobectomy after transcatheter hepatic arterial embolization. A survey of the literature revealed 31 cases of adult hepatoblastoma. According to these reports there are no characteristic clinical features of the tumour, making a correct diagnosis before surgery or autopsy extremely difficult. Complete removal of the tumour is the only treatment which is potentially curative provided that lesion is confined within the liver capsule.
Harada
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T
First Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan.
Matsuo
K
K
Kodama
S
S
Higashihara
H
H
Nakayama
Y
Y
Ikeda
S
S
D000328:Adult; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006498:Hepatectomy; D018197:Hepatoblastoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*