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JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
Volume 47, Issue 5, Pages 675-677Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e318174e808
Keywords
Adenomatous polyposis coli; Familial adenomatous polyposis; Hepatoblastoma
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Hepatoblastoma is the most common primary liver tumor in childhood and occurs more commonly in families with familial adenomatous polyposis. Germline mutations of the gene responsible for familial adenomatous polyposis-adenomatous polyposis coli (APC)-are described in patients with hepatoblastoma even without a family history. We investigated children presenting with apparently sporadic hepatoblastoma between 1991 and 2004. Blood samples were available from 29 children (18 boys) whose conditions were diagnosed at median at a of 22 months (range 6-119 months). No germline APC Mutations were found, which does not support the need for routine screening in sporadic hepatoblastoma in the absence of a suggestive family history of colorectal cancer or suspicion of familial adenomatous polyposis.
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