title: Primary hepatic angiosarcoma: difficulty in clinical, radiological, and pathological diagnosis.
abstract: Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare primary mesenchymal malignancy. Prognosis is poor and mortality occurs early. The diagnosis is challenging. Our case was an asymptomatic 70 year-old man referred, with incidental ultrasonography finding of multiple liver nodules. Diagnostic laparoscopic liver biopsy and the histopathological examination reported a haemangioma. Six months later, he became symptomatic and his health condition deteriorated rapidly.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah, Surgery, KM6, Jalan Langgar, Alor Star, Kedah 05460, Malaysia. khuanfuat@yahoo.com
authors.forename: K F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Leow
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Hasnan
authors.forename: K Subramaniam
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Manisekar
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D006394:Hemangiosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed