title: [Laparoscopic diagnosis of hepatic angiomas after erroneous imaging techniques].
abstract: Hemangiomas are de most frequent benign liver tumours. Their clinical relevance is small but they can cause to the patient and/or the physician a great worry because can be indistinguishable from hepatic malignances. From 1991 to 1994 five patients with liver hemangiomas were diagnosed by laparoscopy after a erroneous and/or contradictory interpretation by various imaging techniques. In four cases hemangiomas resembled metastatic carcinoma of the liver, and in the other patient hemangioma was interpreted as focal nodular hyperplasia. Diagnosis and treatment are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Ciudad Sanitaria Virgen de las Nieves, Granada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: López de Hierro
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Espinosa
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Quintero
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: García Montero
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nogueras
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Martín-Vivaldi
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Diagnóstico laparoscópico de angiomas hepáticos tras error por técnicas de imagen.