Abstract
A 65-year-old woman with a tumor at segment 5 of the liver which was found during examination for an abnormal chest shadow was subrequently found by abdominal ultrasonography (US) to have a 20 mm tumor with a low, and slightly high echo. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) showed an irregular, marginally enhanced tumor at segment 5 of the liver. Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a low signal SOL in a T1-weighed image and a high signal SOL in a T2-weighed image. No other GI tract examinations showed abnormal findings. We first diagnosed the tumor as intrahepatic bile duct carcinoma or metastatic liver tumor. We performed anterior segmental resection of the liver in January 2006. Histpathological analysis yielded a definitive diagnosis of liver-sclerosed hemangioma. Case reports of hepatic sclerosed hemangioma are rare, and to our knowledge only 11 have been described in the literature.
