title: Ectopic intracaval liver.
abstract: Congenital abnormalities of the liver are rare with prior descriptions of lobar or segmental agenesis, Reidel's lobe, and ectopic hepatic lobes. Intrathoracic ectopic hepatic lobes have been reported in many instances; however, there is only one documented case of abnormally positioned liver tissue within the inferior vena cava (J Chapman-Fredricks, R Birusingh, M Ricci, M Rodriguez, Intracaval liver with cardiac extension. A new developmental anomaly? Fetal and Pediatric Pathology. 2010; 29:401-406). We report a second case of an ectopic intracaval liver defined as a mass in an adult who presented for abdominal pain and review the radiological findings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216, USA. prafiei@umc.edu
authors.forename: Poyan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rafiei
authors.forename: Sunit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sebastian
authors.forename: Ramesh B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Manohar S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Roda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002828:Choristoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*