a 36-year-old woman with right upper quadrant abdominal pain since three months previously and no other significant medical history was referred for evaluation of an abdominal mass. upon clinical examination, a large palpable mass in the mid -upper abdominal area was noted. abdominal ultrasound and spiral ct-scan showed a large hepatic mass in the left liver lobe. the patient was referred for t...

The cavernous hemangioma is a rare benign vascular tumor. About 50 cases of this disease were found in the literature over the last century and only 9 cases of cavernous hemangioma on the pregnant uterus were published it comes into cavernous or capillary form. The symptomatology is not unequivocal and when it occurs during pregnancy or postpartum, it causes life-threatening cataclysmic hemorrh...

Cavernous hemangiomas are the most common type of benign liver tumor. Although these tumors are often asymptomatic, they can occur with an array of symptoms. The authors describe a case of a 51-year-old man who presented to the emergency department with a relentless cough, nausea, and abdominal pain. Results of a computed tomography scan suggested the patient had a giant cavernous hemangioma on...

Mesenteric cavernous hemangioma is a very rare disease. Most patients with mesenteric cavernous hemangioma present with gastrointestinal symptoms, such as bleeding and obstruction (1). In this report, to our knowledg, we describe the first case of mesenteric cavernous hemangioma with urological symptoms (1, 2). A 66-year-old man with severe pain radiating toward his penis during urination visit...

Dumbbell-shaped spinal extradural cavernous hemangioma is rare. The differential diagnosis of dumbbell-shaped spinal tumors based on magnetic resonance imaging includes schwannoma and lymphoma. Here, we report a dumbbell-shaped spinal extradural cavernous hemangioma with intrathoracic growth on T2-3 in a 64-year-old man complaining of right side infrascapular area back pain with no neurologic d...

Cavernous hemangioma of the lung synonymous with arteriovenous fistula or aneurysm of the lung is generally considered to be a congenital abnormality. According to Lindskog and Liebow,1 at least 60 cases are in the literature. Roentgenologically, cavernous hemangioma has the appearance of a lobular shadow of increased density continuous with hilar vascular shadows. Clinically it is usually asso...

The authors report a case of cavernous hemangioma in the occipital region, which resembled sinus pericranii, protruded in the recumbent posture. A 28-year-old male was admitted with a chief complaint of an occipital fluctuating mass, 5cm in diameter, accompanied by slight pain. The skull X-P was normal. A direct puncture revealed that the lesion was a blood cyst. A cystogram by percutaneous nee...

Retroperitoneal hemangiomas are very rare. This paper presents the case of a 71-year-old female patient with giant cavernous hemangioma of the retroperitoneum who underwent surgical treatment for abdominal pain and left lower limb edema. Interventional staged treatment with percutaneous transcatheter arterial embolization prior to surgery was considered. Radical resection of the tumor was perfo...

Cavernous hemangioma of the optic chiasm is extremely rare, representing 1% or less of all cavernous hemangioma.1 Klein et al described the earliest reported lesion in 1979.2 Patients typically present with chiasmal apoplexy, characterized by sudden visual disturbance, headache, retro-orbital pain, and nausea.3 Acute dysfunction of the chiasm and/or optic nerve has been called chiasmatic apople...

Background: Primary intraosseous cavernous hemangioma is a rare bony tumor. To date, only 9 cases of multiple lesions and 2 cases with a dural tail sign have been reported. Case presentation: Here, we present a case of multiple cavernous hemangiomas of the skull with dural tail sign in a 24-year-old man. No abnormalities were observed in the right orbit by craniography, but frontotemporal bone ...