Kim-Jun Teh, Kevin and Su-Chong Low, Albert and Pik-Eu Chang, Jason and Tan, Chee-Kiat (2020) Masquerading Hypervascular Exophytic Liver Nodule. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (11). pp. 1-3. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
Patients with liver cirrhosis are at increased risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and are placed on routine surveillance for HCC. Diagnosis algorithms are in place to guide clinicians in the evaluation of liver lesions detected during surveillance. Radiological assessments are critical with diagnostic criteria based on identification of typical hallmarks of HCCs on multiphasic computed tomography (CT) and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We report a patient with a hypervascular exophytic lesion indeterminate for HCC on CT imaging. While the detection of an exophytic arterially-enhancing lesion in an at-risk patient on CT imaging may prompt clinicians to treat the lesion as HCC without further evaluation, the patient underwent contrast-enhanced MRI with the lesion being eventually diagnosed as an exophytic haemangioma. Thus, no further action was necessary and the patient was continued on routine HCC surveillance.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Exophytic liver nodule, hepatic haemangioma, hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2021 14:23 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2021 14:23 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/21052 |
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