A rare case of adult hepatoblastoma with neuroendocrine differentiation misdiagnosed as neuroendocrine tumor.

نویسندگان

  • Qingfu Zhang
  • Jian Ming
  • Siyang Zhang
  • Dawei Guo
  • Xueshan Qiu
چکیده

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. Here, we reported a case of primary giant hepatoblastoma (about 11.4*7.9*15.3 cm) with neuroendocrine differentiation of a 32-year-old woman, which was misdiagnosed as neuroendocrine tumor.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • International journal of clinical and experimental pathology

دوره 6 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013