Korean J Radiol.  2008 Dec;9(6):559-562. 10.3348/kjr.2008.9.6.559.

Diffuse Hepatic Hemangiomatosis without Extrahepatic Involvement in an Adult Patient

• Kim EH
• Park SY
• Ihn YK
• Hwang SS

• KMID: 1118879
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3348/kjr.2008.9.6.559

Abstract

We report an extremely rare case of a diffuse hepatic hemangiomatosis without extrahepatic involvement in an adult. The imaging findings of this tumor were similar to those of a hepatic hemangioma and included contrast enhancement with a centripetal filling pattern of the entire hepatic tumor on the delayed phase of a dynamic CT and inhomogeneous diffuse uptake of the entire tumor on blood-pool images obtained five hours later on a 99mTc-labeled red blood cell scan. Despite its rarity, diffuse hepatic hemangiomatosis can be suggested in adult patients with diffusely involved hepatic tumors showing the radiological findings of a hepatic hemangioma.

Keyword

Hemangioma, carvernous; Liver Neoplasms

MeSH Terms

Adult
Female
Gated Blood-Pool Imaging
Hemangioma/*diagnosis/pathology/ultrasonography
Humans
Liver Neoplasms/*diagnosis/pathology/ultrasonography
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

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