BACKGROUND After nation-wide hepatitis B vaccination in Taiwan, the authors reviewed retrospectively their experience to investigate how the histopathology type of pediatric malignant hepatic tumors changed and whether the survival rate was improved with current surgical technique and adjuvant chemotherapy. METHODS Cases of hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma were retrospectively anal...

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 ...

Hepatoblastoma is most common primary malignant hepatic neoplasm in children. Median age at diagnosis is one year and mostly present by three years. This is a rare case report of a seventeen years female with Down's Syndrome presented with hepatomegaly diagnosed as hepatoblastoma.

PURPOSE Hepatoblastoma is the most common malignant liver tumor in children. The aim of this study was to review our results of hepatoblastoma treatment and to determine the role of surgical treatment in hepatoblastoma. METHODS This is a retrospective clinical study. The medical records of patients with hepatoblastoma, treated between October 1994 and October 2009, were reviewed. The patients...

INTRODUCTION Hepatoblastoma with tumour thrombi extending into inferior-vena-cava and right atrium are often unresectable with an extremely poor prognosis. The surgical approach is technically challenging and might require major liver resection with vascular reconstruction and extracorporeal circulation. However, which is the best surgical technique is yet unclear. PRESENTATION OF CASE A 11-m...

Hepatoblastoma is the most common tumor of liver in childhood. The onset disease insidious, and early stage mostly asymptomatic. About 20 % children had distant metastasis at diagnosis. Only 50 %-60 tumors can be completely resected by surgery, relapse percentage who undergo surgical treatment alone still high. Therefore, aim was to conduct a multimessenger RNA signature improve hepatoblastoma ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW As a rare pediatric tumor, hepatoblastoma presents challenges to the individual practitioner as no center will see more than a handful of cases each year. RECENT FINDINGS The Children's Hepatic tumor International Collaborative (CHIC) effort has fostered international cooperation in this rare children's tumor, leading to the establishment of a large international collaborati...