Calcified cavernous hemangioma of the liver. Review of the literature and report of 13 cases.
Calcified cavernous hemangioma of the liver. Review of the literature and report of 13 cases.
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肝脏钙化海绵状血管瘤。
作者：
A. Plachta
The purpose of this paper is to report 13 unusual examples of calcified cavernous hemangioma of the liver, roentgeno-logically related to calcified visceral hemangiomas elsewhere in the body, and to record and illustrate the antemortem and postmortem roentgenographic pattern leading to differentiation from other calcified lesions of the liver. The rarity of calcified hemangioma of the liver is attested by the absence of reported examples from the literature. To date, as far as the author could ascertain, the only case recorded in the world literature is that of Aspray (3), whose patient was a sixty-eight-year-old hypertensive housewife in whom an extensive circumscribed shadow in the region of the liver was roentgenographically demonstrated. At autopsy the patient was found to have a calcified cavernous hemangioma. Material This report is based upon 13 cases from 18,195 consecutive autopsy records from the New York Medical College, Metropolitan Medical Center, Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, and Metrop...
