title: Scintigraphic finding of a silent hepatic haemangioma.
abstract: Hepatic haemangioma is the most common benign tumour of liver. Most of them remain asymptomatic and are detected incidentally. Tc 99m RBC blood pool imaging is highly specific diagnostic modality of choice for hepatic haemangioma as its hypervascular nature may create equivocal result on CT or MRI. The sensitivity and specificity increases using SPECT especially in lesion less than 2 cm. Therefore all patients suspected of having hepatic haemangioma should undergo Tc 99m blood pool imaging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai.
authors.forename: Rohan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Borse
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Mahapatra
authors.forename: Rajeev
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Meht
authors.forename: Saifee
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Plumber
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dhuri
authors.forename: Sarfaraz
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ali
mesh_terms: D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013667:Technetium; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D013667:Technetium