Is aggressive local treatment necessary for diffuse liver involvement in patients with progression of stage 4s neuroblastoma to stage 4?

J Pediatr Surg. 2008 Sep;43(9):1630-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2008.03.062.

Abstract

Three patients with stage 4S neuroblastoma without MYC-N amplification who progressed to stage 4 with persistent liver involvement, were treated with iodine 131-meta-iodobenzylguanidine therapy, chemotherapy, and surgery. Successive histologic examination of the liver showed differentiation of the tumor in 2 patients and fibrosis in the third. One patient died of brain metastases at the age of 30 months. The other 2 patients are alive at 50 and 44 months. Diffuse liver involvement in patients with stage 4 progression of previous stage 4S without MYC-N amplification may differentiate after treatment. The aim of this report is to draw attention to major liver surgery that it may not be necessary in tumors without MYC-N amplification, despite the persistence of lesions in the liver.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Disease Progression
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Liver Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Neuroblastoma / pathology
  • Neuroblastoma / secondary*
  • Neuroblastoma / therapy*