Primary hepatic angiosarcoma: difficulty in clinical, radiological, and pathological diagnosis
K F Yang1, V M Leow, M N Hasnan
1Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah, Surgery, KM6, Jalan Langgar, Alor Star, Kedah 05460, Malaysia. khuanfuat@yahoo.com
The Medical Journal of Malaysia
|May 16, 2012
Abstract:
Hepatic angiosarcoma is a rare primary mesenchymal malignancy. Prognosis is poor and mortality occurs early. The diagnosis is challenging. Our case was an asymptomatic 70 year-old man referred, with incidental ultrasonography finding of multiple liver nodules. Diagnostic laparoscopic liver biopsy and the histopathological examination reported a haemangioma. Six months later, he became symptomatic and his health condition deteriorated rapidly.


