A Case of Childhood Multiple Focal Nodular Hyperplasia of the Liver.
- Author:
Seon Woo LEE
1
;
Hyun Sang CHO
;
Chul Soon CHOI
;
Eun Sook NAM
;
Ju Shup KIM
;
Chong Young PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Pediatrics, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Focal nodular hyperplasia;
Benign hepatic tumor
- MeSH:
Child;
Diagnosis;
Focal Nodular Hyperplasia*;
Hepatocytes;
Humans;
Liver*;
Male;
Mastectomy, Segmental
- From:Korean Journal of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology
2000;7(1):153-159
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Focal nodular hyperplvasia (FNH) is a rare benign hepatic tumor that likely represents a local hyperplastic response of hepatocytes to a congenital vascular anomaly. FNH is typically asymtomatic and has a benign course. Hepatic resection is performed when the lesions are large, symptomatic and complicated or when the diagnosis remains uncertain. Although many cases of FNH in children have been described to date in other countries, only one Korean case of multiple FNH has been reported on English literature. We recently experienced a rare case of multiple FNH in a 10-year-old boy, that was confirmed by right inferior subsegmentectomy, left lateral segmentectomy and left medial tumorectomy. We report this case with brief review of literature.
