(ultrasonographical alteration of echogenicity) in cavernous hepatic hemangioma

  • Authors:
    • Hiroshi Okano
    • Katsuya Shiraki
    • Hidekazu Inoue
    • Takeshi Ito
    • Takenari Yamanaka
    • Masatoshi Deguchi
    • Kazushi Sugimoto
    • Takahisa Sakai
    • Shigeru Ohmori
    • Katsuhiko Fujikawa
    • Kazumoto Murata
    • Koujiro Takase
    • Takeshi Nakano
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  • Published online on: August 1, 2001     https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.19.2.337
  • Pages: 337-340
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Abstract

There are few reports describing cavernous hepatic hemangiomas with alteration of ultrasonographical imaging during examinations. We performed ultrasonographic examination of 64 cavernous hepatic hemangiomas and recognized 26 cases (41%) with an alteration of echogenicity during the examinations. We refer to this alteration of echogenicity of cavernous hepatic hemanigoma as a . We performed angiography of the cavernous hepatic hamangiomas with variable echo sign. Most of these imaging patterns showed mild or moderate pooling, suggesting that the alteration of echogenicity might be based on a slow blood flow exchange. We suggest that a variable echo sign is specific to ultrasonographic imaging with cavernous hepatic hemangioma and may be useful to differentiate cavernous hepatic hemangioma from other tumors.

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August 2001
Volume 19 Issue 2

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Okano H, Shiraki K, Inoue H, Ito T, Yamanaka T, Deguchi M, Sugimoto K, Sakai T, Ohmori S, Fujikawa K, Fujikawa K, et al: <Variable echo sign> (ultrasonographical alteration of echogenicity) in cavernous hepatic hemangioma. Int J Oncol 19: 337-340, 2001
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Okano, H., Shiraki, K., Inoue, H., Ito, T., Yamanaka, T., Deguchi, M. ... Nakano, T. (2001). <Variable echo sign> (ultrasonographical alteration of echogenicity) in cavernous hepatic hemangioma. International Journal of Oncology, 19, 337-340. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.19.2.337
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Okano, H., Shiraki, K., Inoue, H., Ito, T., Yamanaka, T., Deguchi, M., Sugimoto, K., Sakai, T., Ohmori, S., Fujikawa, K., Murata, K., Takase, K., Nakano, T."<Variable echo sign> (ultrasonographical alteration of echogenicity) in cavernous hepatic hemangioma". International Journal of Oncology 19.2 (2001): 337-340.
Chicago
Okano, H., Shiraki, K., Inoue, H., Ito, T., Yamanaka, T., Deguchi, M., Sugimoto, K., Sakai, T., Ohmori, S., Fujikawa, K., Murata, K., Takase, K., Nakano, T."<Variable echo sign> (ultrasonographical alteration of echogenicity) in cavernous hepatic hemangioma". International Journal of Oncology 19, no. 2 (2001): 337-340. https://doi.org/10.3892/ijo.19.2.337