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We report herein the cases of two Japanese patients with typical fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma treated at our institute. The first patient was a 19-year-old man with no hepatitis B or C viral infection and a normal, noncirrhotic liver in the nontumorous area. The second was a 36-year-old woman with no viral infection and a noncirrhotic liver in the nontumorous area. The clinicopathology, imaging appearances, and histology of both cases were similar to reports from the United States.
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Tanaka, J., Baba, N., Arii, S. et al. Typical fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma in Japanese patients: Report of two cases. Surg Today 24, 459–463 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01427041
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