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Hepatoblastoma and hepatocarcinoma in children: analysis of a series of 29 cases.

Twenty-nine cases of liver malignancies, 26 hepatoblastomas (HB) and 3 hepatocarcinomas (HC), were treated in a 13-year period. All children were submitted to operation but four had nonresectable tumors, even after chemotherapy. Surgery in the 25 cases consisted of right lobectomy in 14, a left lobectomy in 9, and a tumorectomy in 2; a secondary operation had to be performed in 5 cases, either because of histologic doubt on the cut section of the presumed normal parenchyma, or for local recurrence. Preoperative chemotherapy, instituted on a routine basis since 1982, did appear to facilitate surgery in otherwise inoperable tumors. The benefits of preoperative embolization, done for three children, were minimal. Ten children died, one in the immediate postoperative period, eight others from the disease, and one from a complication of chemotherapy. Follow-up for the 18 surviving children, all recurrence and metastasis-free, with normal alphafetoprotein (AFP) is less than 2 years for four and from 2 to 11 years for 14. One teen-age girl, with a fibrolamellar carcinoma has just recently been reoperated because of recurrence three years later. In spite of the fact that 6 out of 7 children operated without adjunctive treatment are cured, a systematic course of preoperative chemotherapy has been prescribed in the more recent cases. Follow-up for these is yet too short.

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