Hepatoblastoma in an Equine Fetus

Hepatoblastoma in an 11-year-old

RATIONALE Hepatoblastoma is a rare malignancy. Approximately 100 cases are diagnosed yearly in the United States. The highest incidence occurs in infants and in children younger than 5 years. Cases involving patients older than 5 years are very rare. We describe the case of a patient who was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma at an atypical age of presentation for this type of malignancy. We also pe...

Hepatoblastoma presenting as an acute abdomen.

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Equine Melioidosis in Iran

Case Series of Hepatoblastoma

Background: In the past 20 years, a dramatic improvement in the prognosis of patients with hepatoblastoma (HB)has been achieved by combining surgery and chemotherapy in several national and international trials.Materials and Methods: Four children ( 3 girl and 1 boy) aged 34 days, 4 months, 13 months, and 1 year with meanage of 6.53 (±5.15) months were presented to our center from 2002 to 2009 ...

Trisomy 15 mosaicism in an IVF fetus.

Prenatal diagnosis of an IVF pregnancy in a woman aged 41 years showed a fetus mosaic for trisomy 15. The fetus had dysmorphic features, hypoplastic adrenal glands, and an accessory spleen. Both IVF and advanced maternal age would seem to increase the risk of trisomy 15.