title: Growing cavernous haemangioma of the liver: 11-fold increase in volume in a decade.
abstract: 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 cm3 to 1343 cm3 in volume. Quantitative documentation on growing hepatic haemangioma has been rare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yoshida
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kosuge
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takayama
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takayasu
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Muramatsu
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Moriyama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hirohashi
mesh_terms: D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography