title: Rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma: a case of complete prenatal involution.
abstract: We report a case of rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma of the flank, which was diagnosed in the 2(nd) trimester of gestation and showed complete involution before term. In our case sonography revealed a highly vascular soft tissue mass with smooth contours, which was isointense with the placenta on T2-weighted MR images. The fetus was born with scar tissue at the site of the lesion. To our knowledge this is the 1(st) reported case of rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma showing complete involution before term.
authors.affiliation: Acibadem University School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Acibadem Kozyatagi Hospital Inonu cd. Okur sk. Kozyatagi, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Umit Aksoy
authors.initials: UA
authors.lastname: Ozcan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005865:Gestational Age; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000196:embryology; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009365:Neoplasm Regression, Spontaneous; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000196:embryology; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal