Hepatic von Meyenburg complex simulating biliary cystadenocarcinoma

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-53

  Karahan, Okkes Ibrahim ^a   Kahriman, Guven ^a   Soyuer, Isin ^a   Ok, Engin ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biliary tree; Computed tomography; Hamartoma; Liver; MRI

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING;

BILIARY TREE; HAMARTOMA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BENIGN TUMOR; BILE DUCT CYST; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; CYSTADENOMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; HAMARTOMA; HEPATIC DUCT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAUNDICE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER INJURY; MALE; MULTIPLE BILE DUCT HAMARTOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VON MEYENBURG COMPLEX;

ADULT; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; RARE DISEASES;

EID: 33845803651     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2006.08.022     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. von Meyenburg H. Uber die Cystenliber. Beitr Pathol Anat 64 (1918) 477-535
2. Tan A., Shen J., and Hecht A. Sonogram of multiple bile duct hamartomas. J Clin Ultrasound 17 (1989) 667-669
3. Salo J., Bru C., Vilella A., et al. Bile-duct hamartomas presenting as multiple focal lesions on hepatic ultrasonography. Am J Gastroenterol 87 (1992) 221-223
4. Redston M., and Wanless I. The hepatic von Meyenburg complex: prevalence and association with hepatic and renal cysts among 2843 autopsies. Mod Pathol 9 (1996) 233-237
5. Federle M., and Anne V. Part II, Hepatobiliary and pancreas (Liver, Section 1). In: Federle M.P. (Ed). Diagnostic imaging. Abdomen (2004), Amirsys Inc, Utah II-1-II-114
6. Cooke J., and Cooke D. The appearances of multiple biliary hamartomas of the liver (von Meyenberg complexes) on computed tomography. Clin Radiol 38 (1987) 101-102
7. Aoki S., Okayama Y., Kitajima Y., et al. Intrahepatic biliary papilloma morphologically similar to biliary cystadenoma. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 20 (2005) 321-324
8. Lev-Toaff A., Bach A., Wechsler R., et al. The radiologic and pathologic spectrum of biliary hamartomas. Am J Roentgenol 165 (1995) 309-313
9. Eisenberg D., Hurwitz L., and Yu A. CT and sonography of multiple bile-duct hamartomas simulating malignant liver disease (case report). Am J Roentgenol 147 (1986) 279-280
10. Semelka R., Hussain S., Marcos H., and Woosley J. Biliary hamartomas: solitary and multiple lesions shown on current MR techniques including gadolinium enhancement. J Magn Reson Imaging 10 (1999) 196-201
11. Burns C., Kuhns J., and Wieman T. Cholangiocarcinoma in association with multiple biliary microhamartomas. Arch Pathol Lab Med 114 (1990) 1287-1289
12. Wheeler D., and Edmondson H. Cystadenoma with mesenchymal stroma (CMS) in the liver and bile ducts. A clinicopathologic study of 17 cases, 4 with malignant change. Cancer 56 (1985) 1434-1445
13. Vogt D., Henderson J., and Chmielewski E. Cystadenoma and cystadenocarcinoma of the liver: a single center experience. J Am Coll Surg 200 (2005) 727-733
14. Melnick P. Polycystic liver; analysis of seventy cases. AMA Arch Pathol 9 (1955) 162-172
15. Terada T., Mitsui T., Nakanuma Y., Miura S., and Toya D. Intrahepatic biliary papillomatosis arising in nonobstructive intrahepatic biliary dilatations confined to the hepatic left lobe. Am J Gastroenterol 86 (1991) 1523-1526