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Hepatoblastoma is an uncommon malignant liver neoplasm occurring in infants and children and composed of tissue resembling fetal or mature liver cells or bile ducts. They are usually present with an abdominal mass. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) commonly is elevated, but when AFP is not elevated at diagnosis the prognosis is poor.[1]
Pathophysiology
Hepatoblastomas originate from immature liver precursor cells, usually unifocal and affect the right lobe of the liver more often than the left lobe, can metastasize.
Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), a syndrome of early-onset colonic polyps and adenocarcinoma, frequently develop hepatoblastomas [2][3]. Also beta-catenin mutations have been shown to be common in sporadic hepatoblastomas, occurring in as many as 67% of patients[4][5].
Recently on other components of the Wnt signaling pathway have also demonstrated a likely role for constitutive activation of this pathway in the etiology of hepatoblastoma[5][6].
Accumulating evidence suggests that hepatoblastoma is derived from a pluripotent stem cell[7].
Recently Studies suggested that low birth weight might be a risk factor for hepatoblastoma[8].
Treatment
Surgical resection, adjuvant chemotherapy prior to resection, and liver transplantation have been used to treat these neoplasms[9][10], primary transplantation provides high, long term, disease-free survival rate in the range of 80%, in cases of complete resection and adjuvant chemotherapy survival rates approach 100% [11] [12]. The presence of metastases is the most potent predictor of poor prognosis[13].
References
- ^ De Ioris M, Brugieres L, Zimmermann A, Keeling J, Brock P, Maibach R, Pritchard J, Shafford L, Zsiros J, Czaudzerna P, Perilongo G (2007). "Hepatoblastoma with a low serum alpha-fetoprotein level at diagnosis: The SIOPEL group experience.". Eur J Cancer 44: 545. doi:10.1016/j.ejca.2007.11.022. PMID 18166449.
- ^ Hirschman BA, Pollock BH, Tomlinson GE (August 2005). "The spectrum of APC mutations in children with hepatoblastoma from familial adenomatous polyposis kindreds". J. Pediatr. 147 (2): 263–6. doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.04.019. PMID 16126064. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022-3476(05)00326-4.
- ^ Sanders RP, Furman WL (November 2006). "Familial adenomatous polyposis in two brothers with hepatoblastoma: implications for diagnosis and screening". Pediatr Blood Cancer 47 (6): 851–4. doi:10.1002/pbc.20556. PMID 16106429.
- ^ Anna CH, Sills RC, Foley JF, Stockton PS, Ton TV, Devereux TR (June 2000). "Beta-catenin mutations and protein accumulation in all hepatoblastomas examined from B6C3F1 mice treated with anthraquinone or oxazepam". Cancer Res. 60 (11): 2864–8. PMID 10850429. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=10850429.
- ^ a b Tan X, Apte U, Micsenyi A, et al. (July 2005). "Epidermal growth factor receptor: a novel target of the Wnt/beta-catenin pathway in liver". Gastroenterology 129 (1): 285–302. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2005.04.013. PMID 16012954.& PMC 1821080. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016508505006967.
- ^ Koch A, Waha A, Hartmann W, et al. (June 2005). "Elevated expression of Wnt antagonists is a common event in hepatoblastomas". Clin. Cancer Res. 11 (12): 4295–304. doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-04-1162. PMID 15958610. http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15958610.
- ^ Ruck P, Xiao JC (November 2002). "Stem-like cells in hepatoblastoma". Med. Pediatr. Oncol. 39 (5): 504–7. doi:10.1002/mpo.10175. PMID 12228907.
- ^ Tanimura M, Matsui I, Abe J, et al. (July 1998). "Increased risk of hepatoblastoma among immature children with a lower birth weight". Cancer Res. 58 (14): 3032–5. PMID 9679968. http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9679968.
- ^ Ang JP, Heath JA, Donath S, Khurana S, Auldist A (February 2007). "Treatment outcomes for hepatoblastoma: an institution's experience over two decades". Pediatr. Surg. Int. 23 (2): 103–9. doi:10.1007/s00383-006-1834-1. PMID 17119981.
- ^ Otte JB, Pritchard J, Aronson DC, et al. (January 2004). "Liver transplantation for hepatoblastoma: results from the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) study SIOPEL-1 and review of the world experience". Pediatr Blood Cancer 42 (1): 74–83. doi:10.1002/pbc.10376. PMID 14752798.
- ^ http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/986802-overview
- ^ Otte JB, de Ville de Goyet J, Reding R (October 2005). "Liver transplantation for hepatoblastoma: indications and contraindications in the modern era". Pediatr Transplant 9 (5): 557–65. doi:10.1111/j.1399-3046.2005.00354.x. PMID 16176410. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/resolve/openurl?genre=article&sid=nlm:pubmed&issn=1397-3142&date=2005&volume=9&issue=5&spage=557.
- ^ Czauderna P, Mackinlay G, Perilongo G, et al. (June 2002). "Hepatocellular carcinoma in children: results of the first prospective study of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology group". J. Clin. Oncol. 20 (12): 2798–804. doi:10.1200/JCO.2002.06.102. PMID 12065556. http://www.jco.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=12065556.
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