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Growing cavernous haemangioma of the liver: 11‐fold increase in volume in a decade
Author(s) -
YOSHIDA JUNICHI,
YAMASAKI SUSUMU,
YAMAMOTO JUNJI,
KOSUGE TOMOO,
TAKAYAMA TADATOSHI,
HASEGAWA HIROSHI,
TAKAYASU KENICHI,
MURAMATSU YUKIO,
MORIYAMA NORIYUKI,
HIROHASHI SETSUO
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of gastroenterology and hepatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.214
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1440-1746
pISSN - 0815-9319
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1991.tb00880.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hemangioma , cavernous hemangiomas , angioma , radiology , nuclear medicine , surgery , vascular disease
A 57 year old Japanese male was incidentally found to have a 7.5 cm diameter hepatic haemangioma. Eleven years later he was operated on because the haemangioma had grown into a 17 cm mass causing upper abdominal fullness. Volumetry on computerized tomograms disclosed that the haemangioma had grown from 123 cm 3 to 1343 cm 3 in volume. Quantitative documentation on growing hepatic haemangioma has been rare.