title: Hepatic angiomyolipoma mimicking hepatic clear cell carcinoma.
abstract: Angiomyolipoma usually involves the kidney and rarely affects the liver. This study reports a case of angiomyolipoma of the liver in a 47-year-old Chinese woman. The patient did not present with abdominal pain and jaundice. Imaging showed a small mass in the right liver. The hepatic artery and portal vein were free from invasion. Partial hepatectomy was performed after a tentative diagnosis of clear cell carcinoma of the liver by needle biopsy. Histopathological examination of the resected specimen revealed angiomyolipoma originating in the liver. The post-operative clinical course was uneventful and, at the time of writing, the patient was well with no signs of recurrence 6 months after operation. To our knowledge this is the first documented case of an angiomyolipoma arising in the liver mimicking hepatic clear cell carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China. chenping@263.net
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D018207:Angiomyolipoma / Q000145:classification* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000145:classification / Q000473:pathology*; D003402:Creatine Kinase / Q000378:metabolism; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000509:alpha-Fetoproteins; D003402:Creatine Kinase