Hepatocellular carcinoma in a child with familial Russell-Silver syndrome

Am J Med Genet. 1988 Dec;31(4):909-14. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320310425.

Abstract

We describe a 4-year-old boy with Russell-Silver syndrome (RSS) found to have hepatocellular carcinoma. The brother of this child also had manifestations of RSS. This is the third malignancy and the first hepatocellular carcinoma described in a patient with RSS. The coexistence of hepatocellular carcinoma and RSS may be completely fortuitous; however, the known association of liver cancer with growth abnormality and hemihypertrophy, findings also present in RSS, suggest that these disorders may be related.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple* / genetics
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / complications*
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / genetics
  • Child, Preschool
  • Ear / abnormalities
  • Face / abnormalities
  • Growth Disorders / complications*
  • Growth Disorders / genetics
  • Hand Deformities / genetics
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / complications*
  • Liver Neoplasms / genetics
  • Male