Liver hemangioma mimicking cholangiocarcinoma - a diagnostic dilemma.
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em Inglês
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ABSTRACT
A 55-year-old man presented with a liver mass that had been diagnosed on ultrasonography, carried out in response to the patient’s complaint of non-specific abdominal pain. Triphasic computed tomography (CT) revealed a lesion involving segments 1, 4, 5 and 8 of the liver. It was centrally hypodense with peripheral enhancement in the arterial phase suggesting a cholangiocarcinoma. The middle hepatic vein was encased and the tumour was present near the junction of the left hepatic and middle hepatic veins. We planned a right hepatic trisegmentectomy including resection of the caudate lobe but since the estimated volume of the liver remnant was only 17% of the total, we first embolised the right portal vein. CT scan repeated 5 weeks later revealed that the lesion was still resectable and that the left lateral segment had hypertrophied to 27% of the liver volume. We performed a right trisegmentectomy including caudate lobe resection using intra-operative ultrasonography to establish that the left hepatic vein was not involved. The removed lesion was hard with ill-defined margins. Histopathological examination revealed a hemangioma.
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2009
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