ABSTRACT

A1 A Metastatic tumours are the most common malignant neoplasms of the liver. These include Wilms’s tumour, lymphoma and neuroblastoma. Primary hepatic tumours represent only 1%–4% of all solid tumours in children. Hepatoblastoma is the most common malignant primary hepatic tumour and accounts for almost half of all primary hepatic tumours, both malignant and benign. HCCs and sarcomas account for the second and third most common malignant tumours respectively. Infantile haemangioendothelioma is a benign hepatic neoplasm. It is the most common benign hepatic neoplasm. Infantile haemangioendothelioma is also the most common neoplasm of the liver in the first year of life.