title: Diffuse hepatic hemangiomatosis without extrahepatic involvement in an adult patient.
abstract: We report an extremely rare case of a diffuse hepatic hemangiomatosis without extrahepatic involvement in an adult. The imaging findings of this tumor were similar to those of a hepatic hemangioma and included contrast enhancement with a centripetal filling pattern of the entire hepatic tumor on the delayed phase of a dynamic CT and inhomogeneous diffuse uptake of the entire tumor on blood-pool images obtained five hours later on a 99mTc-labeled red blood cell scan. Despite its rarity, diffuse hepatic hemangiomatosis can be suggested in adult patients with diffusely involved hepatic tumors showing the radiological findings of a hepatic hemangioma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, St. Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
authors.forename: Eun Hui
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Soo Youn
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Yon Kwon
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Ihn
authors.forename: Seong Su
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Hwang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography