A Case of Childhood Multiple Focal Nodular Hyperplasia of the Liver / 대한소아혈액종양학회지

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.