Growing cavernous haemangioma of the liver: 11-fold increase in volume in a decade

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1991 Jul-Aug;6(4):414-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1991.tb00880.x.

Abstract

A 57 year old Japanese male was incidentally found to have a 7.5 cm diameter hepatic haemangioma. Eleven years later he was operated on because the haemangioma had grown into a 17 cm mass causing upper abdominal fullness. Volumetry on computerized tomograms disclosed that the haemangioma had grown from 123 cm3 to 1343 cm3 in volume. Quantitative documentation on growing hepatic haemangioma has been rare.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / diagnostic imaging*
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / pathology
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / surgery
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Neoplasms / pathology
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Time Factors
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
  • Ultrasonography