1. Think Hemangioma Think Well: Giant Pedunculated Hepatic Cavernous Hemangioma. A Case Report
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Paolo Pizzicato, Martino Trunfio, Luigi Barbuto, Gaspare Oliva, Salvatore Minelli, Severo Campione, Luigia Romano, Marco Di Serafino, Francesca Iacobellis, and Giuseppina Marino Marsilia
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Abdominal pain ,Mass/lesion ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,Computed tomography ,Hepatic tumour ,medicine.disease ,body regions ,Hemangioma ,Medicine public health ,medicine ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Hepatic haemangiomas are the most common benign hepatic tumour; they are usually solitary, less than 5 cm in size, and clinically silent. Giant cavernous haemangiomas are a minor subset of hepatic haemangiomas, often symptomatic due to a mass lesion, complications or compression of adjacent structures. Few of these are pedunculated—often difficult to diagnose because of their exophytic development and greater tendency towards complications through the twisting of their peduncle. We report the case of a 55-year-old woman with a giant pedunculated hepatic cavernous haemangioma causing abdominal pain, with epigastralgia mimicking a gastric stromal tumour. We discuss the diagnostic workup, focusing on the useful of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging findings and giving a brief report of the therapeutic management and literature review.
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- 2020
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