Marinis Athanasios, Kairi Evi, Theodosopoulos Theodosios, Kondi-Pafiti Agathi, Smyrniotis Vassilios
2nd Department of Surgery, Areteion University Hospital, 76 Vasilisis Sofias av., Athens 11528, Greece.
World J Gastroenterol. 2006 Oct 21;12(39):6405-7. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v12.i39.6405.
Cavernous hemangiomatosis of the colon and liver in a 38-year-old woman presenting with a history of cramp like abdominal pain and a mass in the right iliac fossa are presented. Abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography demonstrated multiple liver hemangiomas as well as a noncystic lesion in the right iliac fossa. Operative findings were suggestive of diffuse hemangiomatosis of the right colon and an extensive right hemicolectomy was performed. A review of the literature is presented, considering current diagnostic and therapeutic methods.