title: CT manifestations of a ruptured hepatic tumor after transcatheter arterial embolization.
abstract: There are few reports of the radiologic diagnosis of ruptured hepatic tumors. In a patient with right upper abdominal pain and impending shock, angiography demonstrated a hypervascular hepatic tumor, and CT imaged an extrahepatic mass suggestive of a hematoma. Following transcatheter arterial embolization with Lipiodol Ultrafluide and gelatin-sponge, multiple contiguous CT sections revealed numerous lipiodol droplets adjacent to a lipiodol-containing hepatic tumor, clearly outside the liver. These findings were indicative of a ruptured hepatic tumor. After embolization, the patient's condition improved and he was discharged.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kitano Hospital Tazuke Foundation Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kohno
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Saga
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okajima
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hosono
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tamaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanata
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takabayashi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Matsuda
mesh_terms: D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D006801:Humans; D007459:Iodized Oil; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D007459:Iodized Oil