A Liver-Derived Vascular Lesion: Hepatic Hemangioma or Hepatic Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma?

Abstract

Hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is an uncommon vascular endothelial cell tumor of the liver with numerous symptoms and features. The median affected age is 41, and females are more frequently affected than men. In the following article, a 37-year-old nurse is presented who was referred to the hospital with severe right upper quadrant pain. She had been misdiagnosed with hepatic hemangioma for years, which finally turned out to be hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. Liver transplantation has been recognized as the therapeutic method of choice due to the considerable extent of liver involvement and nonresponse to medications.