TY - JOUR
T1 - Retroperitoneal Schwannoma Mimicking Hepatic Tumor in the Caudate Lobe
AU - Nakamura, Masafumi
AU - Takayama, Tadatoshi
AU - Takayasu, Kenichi
AU - Shimada, Kazuaki
AU - Yamamoto, Junji
AU - Kosuge, Tomoo
AU - Sakamoto, Michiie
AU - Yamasaki, Susumu
AU - Shimizu, Shuji
AU - Makuuchi, Masatoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported in part by a grant-in-aid for Cancer Research from the ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - We report a 41-year-old woman with a retroperitoneal schwannoma mimicking hepatic tumor in the caudate lobe. Dynamic computed tomography in the early phase showed an enhanced tumor (2.7 cm in diameter) in the Spiegel lobe of the liver, which compressed the inferior vena cava (IVC). We also performed left hepatic angiographic computed tomography, and found that the tumor was less enhanced. The patient underwent laparotomy under a preoperative diagnosis of primary hepatic caudate tumor with faint neovascularity. At surgery, the tumor was found to be located between the left caudate lobe and the IVC, and was resected as being of a retroperitoneal origin. This case illustrates that tumor location must be determined with great care when the mass seems to exist at the dorsal edge of the liver, and especially when the tumor is hypovascular.
AB - We report a 41-year-old woman with a retroperitoneal schwannoma mimicking hepatic tumor in the caudate lobe. Dynamic computed tomography in the early phase showed an enhanced tumor (2.7 cm in diameter) in the Spiegel lobe of the liver, which compressed the inferior vena cava (IVC). We also performed left hepatic angiographic computed tomography, and found that the tumor was less enhanced. The patient underwent laparotomy under a preoperative diagnosis of primary hepatic caudate tumor with faint neovascularity. At surgery, the tumor was found to be located between the left caudate lobe and the IVC, and was resected as being of a retroperitoneal origin. This case illustrates that tumor location must be determined with great care when the mass seems to exist at the dorsal edge of the liver, and especially when the tumor is hypovascular.
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U2 - 10.1093/jjco/27.4.282
DO - 10.1093/jjco/27.4.282
M3 - Article
C2 - 9379520
AN - SCOPUS:0031202389
VL - 27
SP - 282
EP - 284
JO - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
SN - 0368-2811
IS - 4
ER -
