Tags: Disease.

Hepatoblastoma is an uncommon malignant liver neoplasm occurring in infants and children and composed of tissue resembling fetal liver cells mature liver cells or bile duct cells. They usually present with an abdominal mass. The disease is most commonly diagnosed during a child’s first three years of life [1]Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) commonly is elevated but when AFP is not elevated at diagnosis the prognosis is poor.

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Hepatoblastoma"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.