title: The imaging of body asymmetry and hemihypertrophy.
abstract: Localized soft tissue and bone overgrowth may be the result of many different causes and will vary in severity, from involvement of a single digit to one half of the body. There are a variety of causes, including chronic lymphedema; lymphangiomatous malformations; neurofibromatosis; vascular malformations including the Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome; macrodystrophia lipomatosa; multiple enchondromatosis and Maffucci's syndrome. More recently, the Bannayan syndrome and the Proteus syndrome have been documented among the causes. Unexplained hemihypertrophy may also occur in association with intra-abdominal neoplasms. The various entities are reviewed and their radiological features described and illustrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Missouri-Columbia 65212.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Levine
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001848:Bone Diseases, Developmental / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005121:Extremities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D007715:Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008068:Lipomatosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008202:Lymphangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008209:Lymphedema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D013577:Syndrome