Hepatic hemangiomas are the most common benign primary tumors of the liver. Although they are usually incidental findings during imaging studies of the abdomen performed for other reasons, hemangiomas warrant therapy if they are causing significant symptoms.Clinical presentation of hemangioma may mimic that of hepatocellular carcinoma. Furthermore, radiologic features on computed tomography and...

INTRODUCTION Cavernous hemangiomas are common benign tumors of the skin or liver but can also rarely originate from the retroperitoneal space, especially adjacent to the renal hilum. Qualitative characterization of these retroperitoneal tumors using available imaging modalities is relatively difficult. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year-old Japanese woman was incidentally noted to have a round homog...

Hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors of the liver and need to be treated in cases where they are accompanied with symptoms, have a risk of rupture, or are hardly distinguishable from malignancy. The authors adopted Transarterial embolization preoperatively to alleviate progressive symptom and avoid rupture of tumor, using staged resection method instead of liver transplantation, and pr...

Hemangiomas account for the vast majority of benign tumors affecting the liver; females are affected more than males. Mostly, hepatic hemangiomas are asymptomatic and incidentally diagnosed. In this review, we provide an updated discussion on the clinical presentation of hepatic hemangiomas as well as on the natural history and available treatment options. Overall the natural history of hepatic...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous hepatic bleeding is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of primary systemic amyloidosis. Although the liver is a common site of amyloid deposition, clinical presentation is usually mild or absent. CASE We report a case of a female patient, who had been repeatedly surgically revised because of liver rupture and hemoperitoneum. Initially, the computed tom...

A screlosed hemangioma of the liver is rare among hepatic tumors. A 75 years old male was referred to our hospital for gastric cancer and a hepatic tumor. The histological finding of gastric cancer was revealed to be well differentiated adenocarcinoma. The liver tumor was 1.1×1.0 cm in size and located in segment 8 of the liver. Computed tomography (CT) showed it to be a tumor with ring enhance...

Seven patients with giant cavernous hemangioma of the liver were treated surgically with success at Pusan Gospel Hospital, Kosin Medical College, Pusan, from 1980 through 1989. They were 3 males and 4 females, and their ages ranged from 6 to 59 years. The tumors were located on the right lobe of the liver in 5 patients and on the left lobe in 2. The lesions were solitary in all patients, and th...

Cavernous hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors of the liver. They can reach enormous sizes and cause various complications. Kasabach-Merritt syndrome is a rare but serious complication characterized by consumptive coagulopathy caused by the hemangioma; mortality rate ranges between 10 and 37%. More than 80% of cases occur within the first year of life. Goals of the treatment are to con...

Hemangiomas are rare tumors in the calvarium and represent 2% of osseous calvarial lesions. Dynamic Tc-99m RBC blood pool scintigraphy has a high positive predictive value for cavernous hemangiomas of the liver. This scintigraphic technique can be used for identifying cavernous hemangiomas at other anatomic sites. We present a case in which a tagged RBC blood pool scan was used for further char...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The aim of this study was to investigate the primary management experience for giant liver hemangiomas greater than 20 cm in size. METHODS Records of patients referred for evaluation of radiologically and/or histopathologically proven giant liver hemangiomas between January 2007 and March 2010 were retrospectively analyzed. The reasons for referral, results of imaging studies,...