A case of atypical caudate lobe hemangioma mimicking hepatocellular carcinoma: CT and angiographic manifestations

World J Gastroenterol. 2004 Nov 15;10(22):3382-4. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i22.3382.

Abstract

We report a case of caudate lobe hemangioma with an atypical CT enhancement pattern. In the present case, hemangioma exhibited a very subtle discontinuous peripheral rim enhancement at the post-enhanced arterial phase, and the peripheral enhanced zone had a moderately increased enhancement degree and with widened enhancement thickness during the portal-phase and delayed-phase. The slow enhancement rate for this caudate lobe hemangioma was due to sluggish perfusion by the small feeding arteries of caudate lobe branches as demonstrated by angiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnostic imaging*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Hemangioma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Liver Circulation
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Middle Aged
  • Neovascularization, Pathologic / diagnostic imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*