BACKGROUND Almost all hepatoblastomas are isolated to the liver. Hepatoblastoma arising from and limited to extrahepatic tissue is an extremely rare clinical entity. CASE PRESENTATION Here we present a case of a 7-year-old Chinese boy of Han ethnicity with hepatoblastoma originating from the hepatogastric ligament. A complete resection was performed and the entire course was uneventful. He re...

BACKGROUND Hepatoblastoma is a rare, rapidly progressive, usually fatal childhood malignancy, which if confined to the liver can be cured by radical surgical resection. An association between hepatoblastoma and familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), which is due to germline mutation of the APC (adenomatous polyposis coli) gene, has been confirmed, but correlation with site of APC mutation has no...

Hepatoblastoma is the most common malignant liver tumor between the age of 6 months and 3 years, but it is extremely rare in adults. Only Forty-five cases of adult hepatoblastoma were reported up to now in the world. Hepatoblastoma exhibits a wide range of epithelial and mesenchymal lines differentiation, but neuroendocrine differentiation of this tumor has rare been reported in the literature....

Hepatoblastoma is the most common primary liver tumor in children. However, it occurs rarely, with an incidence of 0.5-1.5 cases per million children. There is no clear explanation of the relationship between clinicopathologic features, therapy, and outcome in hepatoblastoma cases, so far. One of the most widely accepted prognostic factors in hepatoblastoma is histology of the tumor. The aim of...

Mesenchymal hamartoma and hepatoblastoma are common causes of hepatic masses in pediatric population; they have similar radiologic and pathologic features. Herein, we present a case of mesenchymal hamartoma that was preoperatively diagnosed as hepatoblastoma. The mass was completely resected instead of being treated with preoperative chemotherapy. Postoperative pathological evaluation revealed ...

a young man presented with a large liver mass and positive hepatitis b virus markers. this 18-year-old male has developed ascites, jaundice, high serum alpha fetoprotein (afp) level, liver mass and portal hypertension, without fever or calcification in the mass. all favored the diagnosis of rapidly, progressive hepatocellular carcinoma, however proven hepatoblastoma in liver biopsy. hepatoblast...

BACKGROUND Hepatoblastoma is a malignancy of young children. Low birth weight is associated with significantly increased risk of hepatoblastoma and neonatal medical exposures are hypothesized as contributors. This study represents the largest case-control study of hepatoblastoma to date and aimed to define the role of neonatal exposures in hepatoblastoma risk among low birth weight children. ...

INTRODUCTION Edward's syndrome (trisomy 18) is a rare entity with a reported incidence of 1/3000 to 1/7000 births. Less than 10% of patients survive beyond the first year of life, which may influence the fact that malignant tumors are rarely reported in association with this syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION The authors report a rare case of a 6-month-old girl with trisomy 18 and multifocal hepatob...

Here we report a new transgenic expression system by combination of liver-specific expression, mifepristone induction and Cre-loxP recombination to conditionally control the expression of oncogenic kras(V12). This transgenic system allowed expression of kras(V12) specifically in the liver by a brief exposure of mifepristone to induce permanent genomic recombination mediated by the Cre-loxP syst...

Hepatoblastoma, the most common type of pediatric liver cancer, is treated with a combination of surgery and chemotherapy. An essential drug in the treatment of hepatoblastoma is doxorubicin, which in high doses is cardiotoxic. This adverse effect is due to downregulation of cardiac expression of transcription factor GATA4, leading in turn to diminished levels of anti-apoptotic BCL2 (B-cell lym...