Embryonic tumor of the liver in an adult

✍ Scribed by William H. Barnett; Ethel E. Erickson; Béla Halpert

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1958
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 410 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(195803/04)11:2<306::aid-cncr2820110211>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

IXED OR teratoid tumors of the liver are M rare.l A survey by Milman and Grayzel3 disclosed 27 cases-18 in children and 9 in adults-reported up to 1951. Only 2 of these, those reported by Sheehana and by Hartz and van der Sar,* contained striated muscle fibers. Sheehan's patient was a girl aged 6 years and Hartz's a girl aged 4 months. Since 1951 Williams@ reported a similar growth in a boy aged 2% years, and Pack and Miller: one in a boy aged 14. In this paper an embryonic tumor of the liver containing striated muscle fibers is reported in a man aged 35. This is believed to be the first such growth recorded in an adult.