73-year-old male was a victim of sigmoid colon cancer. He received a sigmoid-colectomy 10 years ago. He suffered from watery diarrhea about 3 times per day for 2-3 months recently. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a heterogeneously enhanced mass in the transverse colon and a 9x8.2 cm well-marginated mass in the left lobe of the liver. The hepatic tumor showed mixed signal intensity on T1...

AIM To analyze retrospectively a 5-year experience of human hepatocyte isolation from resected liver tissues with benign disease. METHODS We established a method of modified four-step retrograde perfusion to isolate primary human hepatocytes. Samples were collected from the resected livers of patients with intrahepatic duct calculi (n = 7) and liver hemangioma (n = 17). Only the samples weigh...

A new case is reported of hepatic giant cavernous hemangioma in a 51-year-old male. We consider the clinical, anatomopathologic and course data of this type of tumors. We discuss the diagnostic resources presently available and the therapeutic possibilities in this type of tumors.

We present a case of giant cavernous hemangioma of the liver with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome) which was cured by enucleation. The 51 year old woman presented with increased abdominal girth and easy bruisability. Workup elsewhere revealed a massive hepatic hemangioma and she was started on radiation therapy to the lesion and offered an orthotopic liver tra...

Reprint requests to: Dr. Jiunn-Ming Lii Department of Radiology, Taipei City Hospital. No. 10, Sec. 4, Ren Ai Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan, R.O.C. Hepatic hemangiomas are not routinely treated except for large symptomatic lesions. Transarterial chemo-embolization (TACE) and percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) are often used to treat hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We report a patient with underlyi...

BACKGROUND Lobular capillary hemangioma (LCH) is a benign vascular tumor that is rare in adults and has never been reported in the liver. This vascular lesion usually presents on the skin or mucous membranes, and predominantly affects children. METHODS LCH as a large asymptomatic hepatic mass was seen in a 35-year-old female. Imaging and pathologic characteristics of the mass are reviewed, an...

Evaluation of a liver nodule detected with ultrasound includes the recovery of a detailed medical history, a physical exam, appropriate contrast imaging examinations and, in selected cases, histopathology. In this setting, identification of liver disease accompanying a liver nodule helps distinction between benign nodules and metastatic malignant nodules from primary liver cancer, as recommende...

BACKGROUND Although specificity of SPECT/CT examination using technetium-99m radiolabeled red blood cells (Tc-99m-RBC) for detection of liver hemangiomas is very high, it is still not perfect. It is possible to overlook a malignancy. Moreover, the difference in accumulation of RBCs between a hemangioma and uninvolved liver remains unknown. The aim of the study is to determine the quotients of a...

Hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors found in the liver, typically asymptomatic, solitary, and incidentally discovered. Although vascular in nature, they rarely bleed. We report a case of a 52-year-old woman with a previously stable hemangioma who presented to our hospital with signs and symptoms indicative of spontaneous rupture. We review the literature, focusing on diagnosis and man...