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Table 1
Clinical Features of 45 Cases of Primary Hepatic Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma in the English literature
References/Published date		Authors	No. Cases	Age/Sex	Presentation	Location	Size (Largest Dimension, cm)	Therapy	Follow-up/Outcome

5	1985	Alberti-Flor et al	1	59/M	Abdominal pain, anorexia, low fever, weight loss	Right and left lobe	18	Surgery	2 w/died of tumor
6	1985	Conran et al	1	61/M	Abdominal pain, anorexia, jaundice, weight loss	Right and left	7	Puncture biopsy	18 d/died of tumor
7	1986	Fukayama et al	1	38/F	Hepatic mass	Left lobe	7	Surgery	4 y/alive without recurrence
8	1987	Arends et al	1	78/F	Abdominal discomfort, anorexia,shortness of breath;	Right and left lobe	> 10	Palliative	6 d/died of tumor
9	1988	Bruneton et al	2	52/F	Abdominal pain	Right lobe	10	Surgery	2 y/alive without recurrence
				34/M	Abdominal pain	Right lobe	13	Palliative operation	6 mo/died of tumor
10	1988	Honda et al	1	71/F	Weight loss, fatigue, fever	Right lobe	> 10	Puncture biopsy, chemoembolization	4 mo/died of tumor
11	1988	Katsuda et al	1	61/M	Abdominal discomfort	Right lobe	8.5	Surgery and chemotherapy	6 mo/died of tumor
12	1991	Hamasaki et al	1	35/M	Abdominal fullness, palpable mass	Left lobe	9.1	Surgery, Intraarterial therapy, later liver transplant	34 mo/died of lung metastasis
13	1992	Akifuji et al	1	79/M	Anorexia, fatigue	Left lobe	8	Chemoembolization, Surgery	5 mo/recurrence
14	1992	Zornig et al	1	36/F	Abdominal pain	N/A	7	Surgery, postoperate chemotherapy	63 mo/alive without tumor
15	1992	McGrady et al	1	53/F	Left-sided chest pain	Left lobe	14 (operation)	Surgery, 5 years later recured, surgery again	9 y/alive without tumor after second surgery
16	1993	Reed et al	1	52/M	Spike fever	Right lobe	> 10	Surgery, postoperate chemotherapy	2 mo/died of metastasis
17	1994	Pinson et al	1	41/M	Abdominal pain, weight loss	Right and left	11.5	Surgery	10 and a half mo/died of recurrence and metastasis
18	1998	Fujita et al	1	70/M	Malaise, anorexia, fever, weight loss	Right and left	12	Puncture biopsy, Surgery	3 mo/died of tumor
19	1998	Wunderbaldinger et al	1	56/F	Palpable mass, lower extremity swelling	Right lobe	> 10	Surgery	N/A
20^†	1998	Ferrozzi et al	3	62/F^†	Abdominal pain, malaise, low-grade fever, and weight loss	Right lobe	> 12	Surgery	3 y/alive without recurrence
				67/F	Abdominal pain, weight loss, malaise and palpable mass.	Right and left	> 12	Biopsy, palliative chemotherapy.	N/A
				69/M	Abdominal pain, weight loss, fatigue and anorexia.	Right and left	> 12	Puncture biopsy, palliative chemotherapy	N/A
21^†	1999	Yu et al	5	40-69(53)/4M, 1F	Abdominal discomfort4, right shoulder and chest pain1	Right lobe 3, left lobe 2	7-19 (mean 13)	Surgery*5	N/A*5
22	1999	Maekawa et al	1	68/M	Malaise	Right lobe	6	Surgery	N/A
23	2005	Anagnostopoulos et al	1	87/F	Abdominal pain, weight loss, low fever	Right lobe	12(CT)	Puncture biopsy	6 mo/died of tumor
24	2006	Ding et al	1	50/M	Abdominal pain, fatigue, weight loss	Right and left	14.2(CT)	Biopsy after laparotomy	2 mo/died of tumor
25^‡	2007	Ye et al	1	50/M	Abdominal pain, weight loss	Left lobe	16	Surgery	4 mo/died of recurrence and metastasis
26	2007	Chen et al	1	70/M	Abdominal pain, weight loss	Right lobe	12.4(CT)	Palliative operation	1 mo/died of tumor
27^†	2008	Li et al	7	77/F	Spiking fever, weight loss	Right lobe	10	Lobectomy	1 y/died of tumor
				54/M	Abdominal pain, weight loss	Left lobe	5.5	Lobectomy	4 y/died of tumor
				34/F	Abdominal pain	Right lobe	14	Liver and lung Lobectomy	4 mo/died of tumor
				80/F	Abdominal discomfort, weight loss	Right lobe	20	Palliative	1 y/died of tumor
				68/F	Abdominal pain	Right and left	2	N/A	N/A
				46/F	Abdominal pain	Right lobe	12	Gleevecineffective	3 mo/alive, tumor larger but no metastasis
				70/M^†	Incidental finding	Right lobe	11	Lobectomy	4 y/no recurrence
28	2009	Sugitani et al	2	45/F	Abdominal pain	Left lobe	11	Surgery, 2 years and 5 months later recured, surgery again	34 mo/died of tumor metastasis
				70/F	Jaundice	Right lobe	12	Preoperate chemotherapy, Surgery	8 mo/died of tumor metastasis
29	2009	Kim et al	1	60/M	Abdominal pain, weight loss	Right lobe	14	Surgery	41 mo/alive without recurrence
30	2010	Caldeira et al	1	63/M	Abdominal discomfort, lower extremities edema and weight loss.	Right lobe	N/A	Puncture biopsy	45 d/died of tumor
31	2011	Cong et al	5	50-71(59)/2M, 3F	Abdominal pain or discomfort4, weight loss1	Right lobe 2, left lobe 1, right and left1, N/A1	2.5-16	Surgery*5	N/A*5

† indicates containing cases that were diagnosed as myxoid MFH; ‡ giant cell-type MFH
Yao and Dai World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2012 10:2 doi:10.1186/1477-7819-10-2

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