pediatric hepatic tumors

Primary hepatic neoplasms account for 0.5% to 2.0% of all pediatric neoplasms and comprise a variety of benign and malignant epithelial and mesodermal tumors.

Incidences of these tumors change significantly from birth to 20 years of age.

Of 716 cases of the 10 most commonly occurring hepatic neoplasms seen at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology between 1970 and 1999, hepatoblastoma, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and hemangioendothelioma accounted for almost 65%.

Types (Exemples)

 hepatic adenoma

 malignant tumors

• hepatoblastoma
• desmoplastic nested spindle cell tumor of liver (15613851)
• hepatocellular carcinoma
  • fibrolamellar carcinoma (fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma)

 hepatic sarcomas

By histogenesis

 hepatic vascular tumors

See also

 Tumors

• hepatic tumors

References

 Weinberg AG, Finegold MJ. Primary hepatic tumors of childhood. Hum Pathol. 1983 Jun;14(6):512-37. PMID: 6303939