Monday, March 3, 2008

What may have liver cancer?

Liver may be benign and malignant tumors. Liver benign tumor found in the following categories: hepatic hemangioma, hepatocellular carcinoma, liver lymphangioma, liver fibroids, liver teratoma, liver leiomyoma, such as hepatolithiasis adenoma. When benign tumors smaller, May without any clinical symptoms, when the tumor is gradually increasing, oppression neighboring organs, there will be symptoms. Benign tumors before surgery and check it is very difficult to rule out completely the possibility of malignancy, benign tumor itself also has the possibility of malignant transformation, tumor size can produce excessive oppression symptoms, symptoms, as soon as possible for local resection or liver resection, or periodic review. Benign tumors in a more common hepatic hemangioma is generally not malignant transformation occurred, and its mechanism of the congenital dysplasia, about 50 percent in the period found that children, and most have family history of disease. Primary liver tumors in more than 90 percent of malignant tumors, a higher prevalence among poor prognosis. Malignant tumors derived from epithelial cells: hepatocellular carcinoma, bile duct cell carcinoma, liver and bile duct cancer cells mixed. Among the leaf tissue from malignant tumors are: vascular endothelial cell sarcoma, malignant lymphoma, and fibrosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma. The malignant tumor derived from embryonic tissues are: hepatoblastoma. There are other rare malignant biliary capsule adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and so on. In all of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form, accounting for 75% -85% of the remaining relatively rare malignancy, and the liver is the organ other gastrointestinal malignancies in particular the transfer of the most vulnerable sites .

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