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Hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma
Author(s) -
Yen JB,
Kong MS,
Lin JN
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1754.2003.00250.x
Subject(s) - medicine , enucleation , hamartoma , abdominal distension , abdominal mass , metastasis , surgery , pathology , cancer
Hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma (HMH) is a rare liver tumour in childhood. It is believed to be a benign tumour with a good prognosis if the tumour is excised. Only a few cases with local relapse or metastasis have been reported. We reviewed 134 patients with space‐occupying liver lesions, from January 1990 to December 1999, and four patients with HMH were found. Abdominal mass and/or distension were the common initial presentations. Three of our four cases were diagnosed in the first year of life. The liver function tests and tumour markers were non‐specific. Case 1 underwent tumour enucleation and another three cases underwent tumour excision. One patient died. No tumour recurrence was noted in the surviving patients.