1982 Volume 24 Issue 4 Pages 660-666_1
The authors present the case in which the prominent compression by a hemangioma of the liver at the fornix was suspected to be a submucosal tumor of the stomach. A 49-year-old man took a close exmaination because of an abnormal shadow at the f ornix in photof luorograms at gastric mass survey. Then submucosal tumor of the stomach was suspected, but barium meal examination combined with pneumoperitoneography showed the extragastric compression. Operation revealed a hemangioma of the liver which grew extrahepatically from the left lobe of the liver. At the f ornix, it is sometimes difficult to differenciate a submucosal tumor from a protrusion caused by the compression of extragastric mass. The authors reffered to the points for the differenciation and emphasized the availability of barium meal examination combined with pneumoperitoneography for the diagnosis. Cavernous hemangioma of the liver reported in literatures are discussed.
