Open AccessEPITHELIOID HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA: A RARE CAUSE OF A LIVER TUMOR
Author(s) -
Carlos Alventosa Mateu,
Juan José Urquijo Ponce,
Brian Herráez,
Laura García Llabata
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas/revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2020.7127/2020
Subject(s) - medicine , epithelioid hemangioendothelioma , hemangioendothelioma , angiosarcoma , differential diagnosis , radiology , radiological weapon , hemangiosarcoma , pathology , immunohistochemistry
Hepatic hemangioendothelioma is a rare tumor which has malignant potential and a difficult radiological differential diagnosis that includes many others liver tumors as metastasic carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma and, especially, angiosarcoma. Thus, it is an entity that is usually not diagnosed in an accurate way by radiology and further histolopathological study is needed. However, hemangioendothelioma can present certain specificied patterns in contrast-enhanced imaging. In this regard, we present the case of a patient with an epithelioid hemangioendothelioma that shows these radiological features.