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==Hepatoblastoma== | ==Hepatoblastoma== | ||
===General=== | |||
*Most common liver cancer in children.<ref name=Ref_PBoD923>{{Ref PBoD|923}}</ref><ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-overview]. Accessed on: 29 November 2009.</ref> | *Most common liver cancer in children.<ref name=Ref_PBoD923>{{Ref PBoD|923}}</ref><ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-overview]. Accessed on: 29 November 2009.</ref> | ||
**Rare in adolescents and adults. | |||
*Surgical biopsy; core needle biopsy ''not'' done as as lesion is vascular. | *Surgical biopsy; core needle biopsy ''not'' done as as lesion is vascular. | ||
Associations: | |||
* | *Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.<ref name=pmid9544889>{{cite journal |author=DeBaun MR, Tucker MA |title=Risk of cancer during the first four years of life in children from The Beckwith-Wiedemann Syndrome Registry |journal=J. Pediatr. |volume=132 |issue=3 Pt 1 |pages=398–400 |year=1998 |month=March |pmid=9544889 |doi= |url=}}</ref> | ||
*[[Familial adenomatous polyposis]]. | |||
Clinical: | |||
* | *High AFP.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 11 February 2011.</ref> | ||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | |||
*[[Small round cell tumour]]. | |||
====Subtypes==== | |||
*Six histologic subtypes - that are subdivided into two groups (epithelial, mixed epithelial and mesenchymal).<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-diagnosis http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-diagnosis]. Accessed on: 11 February 2011.</ref> | |||
==Hepatocellular carcinoma== | ==Hepatocellular carcinoma== | ||