PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Vinall, Maria
ED  - Zucman-Rossi, Jessica
TI  - Use of Molecular Biology for Identifying Benign Hepatocellular Tumors Leads to More Personalized Medicine
DP  - 2014  01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 6--8
VI  - 14
IP  - 48
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/48/6.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/48/6.full
AB  - Benign hepatocellular adenomas are not a uniform liver disease but include different types of tumors, which can be classified as hemangioma (nonepithelial), focal nodular hyperplasia, and hepatocellular adenoma, the latter 2 being epithelial tumors. This article discusses how insights from molecular biology have profoundly changed our clinical understanding of benign liver tumors and how using the genotype-phenotype classification of these tumors can identify new etiologies, as well as diagnostic and prognostic features of this disease.