Sotiropoulos Georgios C, Kaiser Gernot M, Frühauf Nils R, Kühl Hilmar, Metz Klaus A, Oldhafer Karl J, Broelsch Christoph E
Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital Essen, Germany.
Hepatogastroenterology. 2004 Mar-Apr;51(56):436-8.
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the liver is very uncommon and is quite difficult to distinguish from a cholangiocarcinoma or a metastatic liver disease by imaging diagnostics. However, the histological features are characteristic for this soft-tissue tumor. Although liver tumor is usually multifocal and a liver resection is not possible in most cases, we report a case of a multifocal epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the liver that was completely resected. The tumor was associated with a solitary extrahepatic lesion, which was first discovered six months after the liver resection and which was also resected.
