The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Images in Clinical Medicine
PreviousPrevious
Volume 342:791 March 16, 2000 Number 11
NextNext

Hepatic Hemangioma

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF
-Purchase this article

Commentary
-Letters

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited

More Information
-PubMed Citation
Figure 1.


View larger version (77K):
[in this window]
[in a new window]
 
Figure 1. A 45-year-old man with asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus infection presented with abdominal distention. Examination revealed an enlarged, soft liver extending 20 cm below the costal margin in the right midclavicular line, with a width of 25 cm. There was no nodularity, tenderness, or bruit and no clinical or laboratory evidence of hepatic dysfunction. An abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scan with intravenous contrast medium (Panel A) disclosed two low-density space-occupying lesions (arrows), with patchy areas of enhancement peripherally. The larger lesion contained a central area of lower density (arrowhead). To confirm a presumptive diagnosis of hemangioma, single-photon-emission CT . . . [Full Text of this Article]

 

Related Letters:

Hepatic Hemangioma
Federle M. P., Brancatelli G., Blachar A.
Extract | Full Text  
N Engl J Med 2000; 343:368-369, Aug 3, 2000. Correspondence

This article has been cited by other articles:



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.