Diffuse Hepatic Hemangiomatosis without Extrahepatic Involvement in an Adult Patient.
- Author:
Eun Hui KIM
1
;
Soo Youn PARK
;
Yon Kwon IHN
;
Seong Su HWANG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Hemangioma, carvernous; Liver Neoplasms
- MeSH: Adult; Female; Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; Hemangioma/*diagnosis/pathology/ultrasonography; Humans; Liver Neoplasms/*diagnosis/pathology/ultrasonography; Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:Korean Journal of Radiology 2008;9(6):559-562
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: We report an extremely rare case of a diffuse hepatic hemangiomatosis without extrahepatic involvement in an adult. The imaging findings of this tumor were similar to those of a hepatic hemangioma and included contrast enhancement with a centripetal filling pattern of the entire hepatic tumor on the delayed phase of a dynamic CT and inhomogeneous diffuse uptake of the entire tumor on blood-pool images obtained five hours later on a 99mTc-labeled red blood cell scan. Despite its rarity, diffuse hepatic hemangiomatosis can be suggested in adult patients with diffusely involved hepatic tumors showing the radiological findings of a hepatic hemangioma.
