- Tumor of vascular origin
- Adult women
- Consists of epithelioid endothelial cells
- Occasionally contains punctate calcification
- Multiple peripheral nodules that coalesce, cause capsular retraction, with compensatory hypertrophy of uninvolved liver segments
- Can cause hepatic vein occlusion
Imaging
- CT: multiple peripheral heterogeneous areas of low attenuation. Enhancement of rim of nodules with low attenuation halo outside ring of enhancement
- US: solid lesions with low reflectivity
- MRI: low T1, moderate high T2
Read more
Earnest IV, Frank, and C. Daniel Johnson. “Case 96: Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.” Radiology 240.1 (2006): 295-298.
Azzam, Ramzi I., Najeeb S. Alshak, and Hong P. Pham. “AIRP best cases in radiologic-pathologic correlation: Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.” Radiographics 32.3 (2012): 789-794.
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