title: [Hepatic angioma: a bothersome presence during staging of neoplasms of the digestive system].
abstract: On reviewing a consecutive series of 1,200 ultrasonic tomographies of the liver to assess the incidence of liver angiomas, the authors describe their sonographic, tomodensitometric and angiographic characteristics. They emphasise the fact that such lesions, though usually not constituting a serious clinical or diagnostic problem, as a simple sonographic follow-up will suffice to clarify the situation, may nevertheless, in certain particular clinical situations such as in the course of tumour staging of the digestive apparatus, require full diagnostic investigation using all the techniques available (ultrasonic tomography, CAT, liver arteriography, sonographically guided thin-needle biopsy.
authors.affiliation: U.L.S.S.S. N. 6 Alto Vicentino, Stabilimento Ospedaliero di Thiene, Vicenza, Servizio di Radiologia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scicolone
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Motteran
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004067:Digestive System Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006499:Hepatic Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: L'angioma epatico: una scomoda presenza in corso di stadiazione di neoplasie dell'apparato digerente.