[Blood pool in the study of hepatic hemangioma]

Blood pool scintigraphy is a useful tool in the diagnosis of hepatic hemangioma. We reviewed retrospectively the clinical histories of 24 patients with abnormal blood pool scintigraphies and a presumptive diagnosis of hepatic hemangioma, based on clinical or ultrasonographic findings. In 20 of these patients, blood pool scintigraphy was diagnostic for hepatic hemangioma. The diagnosis was confirmed by an asymptomatic clinical evolution of 12 to 78 months in all the patients, CT scan in 8, angiography in 5 and liver biopsy in one. In the remaining 4 patients scintigraphy ruled out the presence of a hepatic hemangioma. Our results are similar to previous reports in the literature and blood pool scintigraphy has a high specificity for the diagnosis of hepatic hemangioma.