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Liver Tumors

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Tumors of the Fetus and Infant

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Tumors and tumorlike conditions of the liver are uncommon in newborns and infants, comprising only 3 and 8 %, respectively, of the total neoplasms of various types [1, 2]. The incidence of malignant liver tumors during the first year of life as determined from the Third National Cancer Survey is 7.5 per million live births per year [3]. Hepatic malignancies ranked seventh as the cause of infant deaths from cancer in that survey. Hepatic tumors seldom occur in the perinatal period comprising approximately 5 % of the total neoplasms of different kinds occurring in this age group [1–3].

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Isaacs, H. (2013). Liver Tumors. In: Tumors of the Fetus and Infant. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31620-3_12

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