title: Hepatic angiosarcoma with early central enhancement and arterioportal shunt on dynamic CT.
abstract: We report a case of hepatic angiosarcoma that is usually difficult to differentiate from cavernous hemangioma on computed tomography. The present case suggests that early central enhancement and arterioportal shunting on dynamic computed tomography might be helpful for distinguishing hepatic angiosarcoma with a solid growth pattern from benign vascular neoplasms of the liver such as cavernous hemangioma.
authors.affiliation: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, 577 Matsushima, Kurashiki, Okayama 701-0192, Japan. ohmotok@med.kawasaki-m.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohmoto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hirokawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takesue
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed