Manifestação de hemangioendotelioma hepático em adulto

• Main Authors: Aderivaldo Coelho de Andrade, Ivo Canamary da Silveira Ribeiro, Álvaro José de Morais Araújo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
• Series: Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
• Subjects: Hemangioendothelioma; Liver neoplasms
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69912007000200014&lng=en&tlng=en

Hepatic hemangioendothelioma is the most frequent hepatic tumor in infancy, but rarely detected in adults. This tumor can cause vascular lesions that can act as arteriovenous fistulas and produce life-threatening high output congestive heart failure with respiratory compromise. We report a case of a 35 years-old woman who developed nausea, vomiting, weight lost and abdominal mass in which the pathological examination of the hepatic lesion showed a infantile hepatic hamangioendothelioma. This is the third case in adult patients described in the literature.