title: [Focal nodular liver hyperplasia of atypical presentation].
abstract: Focal nodular hyperplasia is a benign hepatic tumor that usually appears in young women. Diagnosis of focal nodular hyperplasia is often incidental when an ultrasonography or computed tomography is performed by other reasons, because its course is generally asymptomatic; the presence of a central fibrous scar is characteristic. Management in focal nodular hyperplasia must be conservative, with ultrasonographic follow-up, and it only must be treated when patients are symptomatics or in case of tumoral enlargement. We report a case of FNH in which symptomatic presentation and the absence of central stellate scar in ultrasonography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance leads to a misdiagnostic of hepatic adenoma, that conditioned a surgical resection. The later examination was diagnostic of focal nodular hyperplasia.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Hepatología, Hospital General Universitario, Valencia.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pamos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Luján
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: García
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cors
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diago
mesh_terms: D000236:Adenoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography