[Hepatic hemangioma in the neonate: description of a case treated surgically with favorable outcome].
The authors describe a case of hepatic hemangioma in a newborn, treated by successful surgical resection. Neonatal hepatic hemangioma is able to produce congestive heart failure with high output, thrombocitopenia, spontaneous rupture with peritoneal hemorrhage and sudden death. The major symptoms are a palpable anterior abdominal mass, tachicardia, and congestive heart failure unrespansive to medical treatments; sometimes there are cutaneus hemangiomas. When diagnosis is made, surgical resection is necessary in the solitar hemangioma; for diffuse or multinodular hemangiomatosis radiotherapy, corticosteroids and hepaticartery ligation have been employed with some good results.
D006391:Hemangioma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male
Emangioma epatico in età neonatale: descrizione di un caso trattato chirurgicamente con esito favorevole.