Solitary hepatic granuloma preoperatively diagnosed as intrahepatic cholangiocellular carcinoma: report of a case.
We herein report the case of a 67-year-old female with a solitary hepatic granuloma preoperatively diagnosed as a mass-forming type of intrahepatic cholangiocellular carcinoma. Magnetic resonance imaging using gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid as a contrast medium is expected to be useful for making a differential diagnosis between hepatic granuloma and other hypovascular liver tumors, such as the mass-forming type of intrahepatic cholangiocellular carcinoma and metastatic liver tumors.
Advanced Surgical Science and Technology Division, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tohoku, 1-1, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0872, Japan. daizofk@yahoo.co.jp
Daizo
D
Fukushima
Takeru
T
Iwane
Kazushige
K
Sato
Naoki
N
Kawagishi
Satoshi
S
Sekiguchi
Kazuyuki
K
Ishida
Susumu
S
Satomi
D000368:Aged; D018281:Cholangiocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011300:Preoperative Care; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D003287:Contrast Media