Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature

Hepatic hemangioma, adenoma and focal nodular hyperplasia are the most frequent benign lesions of the liver, but they are all infrequent among pediatric population. The reports of focal nodular hyperplasia in children have recently increased in number, with many cases associated to drug intake, part...

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Autores principales: Farruggia, Piero, Alaggio, Rita, Cardella, Francesca, Tropia, Serena, Trizzino, Antonino, Ferrara, Francesca, D'Angelo, Paolo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2883986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20504362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-41
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author Farruggia, Piero
Alaggio, Rita
Cardella, Francesca
Tropia, Serena
Trizzino, Antonino
Ferrara, Francesca
D'Angelo, Paolo
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description Hepatic hemangioma, adenoma and focal nodular hyperplasia are the most frequent benign lesions of the liver, but they are all infrequent among pediatric population. The reports of focal nodular hyperplasia in children have recently increased in number, with many cases associated to drug intake, particularly to chemotherapy. We here describe, to our knowledge, the first case of focal nodular hyperplasia in association with diabetes mellitus in childhood.
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spelling pubmed-28839862010-06-12 Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature Farruggia, Piero Alaggio, Rita Cardella, Francesca Tropia, Serena Trizzino, Antonino Ferrara, Francesca D'Angelo, Paolo Ital J Pediatr Case report Hepatic hemangioma, adenoma and focal nodular hyperplasia are the most frequent benign lesions of the liver, but they are all infrequent among pediatric population. The reports of focal nodular hyperplasia in children have recently increased in number, with many cases associated to drug intake, particularly to chemotherapy. We here describe, to our knowledge, the first case of focal nodular hyperplasia in association with diabetes mellitus in childhood. BioMed Central 2010-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC2883986/ /pubmed/20504362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-41 Text en Copyright ©2010 Farruggia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case report
Farruggia, Piero
Alaggio, Rita
Cardella, Francesca
Tropia, Serena
Trizzino, Antonino
Ferrara, Francesca
D'Angelo, Paolo
Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature
title Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature
title_full Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature
title_fullStr Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature
title_short Focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature
title_sort focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver: an unusual association with diabetes mellitus in a child and review of literature
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2883986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20504362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1824-7288-36-41
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