INTRODUCTION Cavernous hemangiomas are common benign tumors of the skin or liver but can also rarely originate from the retroperitoneal space, especially adjacent to the renal hilum. Qualitative characterization of these retroperitoneal tumors using available imaging modalities is relatively difficult. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year-old Japanese woman was incidentally noted to have a round homog...

BACKGROUND Most cavernous hemangiomas in the spleen are small lesions that are found incidentally and patients usually present with no symptoms. Imaging is able to detect the lesions that are considered as diagnostic evidence. But some patients with diffuse cavernous hemangioma may present with anemia, thrombocytopenia, coagulopathy and bleeding, which might be misdiagnosed as idiopathic thromb...

Cavernous hemangioma in the spine is rare, and occurrence of intradural extramedullary cavernous particularly infrequent. A 57-year-old male patient visited emergency room with suddenly worsening neurological symptoms. Computed tomography at T10-11 levels showed a round isodense mass lesion, magnetic resonance imaging 1.2-cm oval mass. Therefore, diagnosis an tumor was suspected. Active subdura...

CONTEXT Adrenal cavernous hemangioma is a rare type of tumor that is usually diagnosed post-operatively. There have only been approximately 63 cases reported in the literature to date. CASE REPORT We report a case of adrenal cavernous hemangioma in a 27-year-old pregnant woman. The mass was discovered on ultrasonography when she visited a gastroenterologist for vague epigastric discomfort and...

Context Adrenal cavernous hemangioma is a rare type of tumor that is usually diagnosed post-operatively. There have only been approximately 63 cases reported in the literature to date. Case report We report a case of adrenal cavernous hemangioma in a 27-year-old pregnant woman. The mass was discovered on ultrasonography when she visited a gastroenterologist for vague epigastric discomfort and v...

Cavernous hemangioma is a vascular tumor composed of large dilated blood vessels and containing large blood-filled spaces. The formation is due to dilation and thickening of the walls of the capillary loops. Most cavernous hemangiomas present at birth or soon after. On the other hand, jugular phlebectasia is an abnormal benign sacculofusiform dilatation of jugular veins. It should be considered...

hemangioma of the spermatic cord is a benign, extremely rare tumor. we report a case of spermatic cord hemangioma presenting with a painless mass in the left hemiscrotum. physical examination revealed a non-tender non-transilluminating irregular mass in the left hemiscrotum, above and clearly separate from the left testis. after surgical removal of the mass arising from the spermatic cord, hist...

Neuroradiologic studies performed in 18 cases of surgically verified intraorbital cavernous hemangioma are reported. Skull films usually showed enlargement of the orbit and evidence of soft-tissue mass. Phlebography rarely demonstrated filling of the cavernous hemangioma or enlarged draining veins. On angiography, in addition to displacement of vessels, pooling of contrast medium in the cavitie...

We have read with interest the article “Dynamic Enhancement Features of Cavernous Sinus Cavernous Hemangiomas on Conventional Contrast-Enhanced MR Imaging” by Y. Jinhu et al published in the March 2008 issue of the American Journal of Neuroradiology. The authors reported progressive contrast “filling in” in cavernous hemangiomas in the cavernous sinus as an important differential diagnostic sig...

BACKGROUND Cavernous hemangioma is a frequent and the most common, primary, benign tumor of the orbit in adults. It is typically single and unilateral, considered not to recur after having been completely excised. Multiple orbital cavernous hemangiomas without signs of hemangiomatosis are rare. Multiple cavernous hemangiomas may recur after a complete excision and may exist with concurrent syst...