Is HCC a hypervascular?
Hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) that hyperintensity relative to the surrounding liver on hepatobiliary phase gadoxetic acid–enhanced MR images demonstrate a significantly higher grade of differentiation (P = . 028) and rarer portal vein invasion (P = . 039) than those of hypointense HCCs.
What is a hypervascular tumor?
Abstract. Hypervascular hepatocellular lesions include both benign and malignant etiologies. In the benign category, focal nodular hyperplasia and adenoma are typically hypervascular. In addition, some regenerative nodules in cirrhosis may be hypervascular.
What does hypervascular mean?
(HY-per-VAS-kyoo-ler) Having a large number of blood vessels.
What is a hypervascular mass in the liver mean?
Dr. Stephen Cheng answered 35 years experience Transplant Surgery Cells and vessels: A hypervascular mass in the liver is a tumor, which is made up of cells (benign or malignant) and their support structure (fibrous stroma and blood ve…
What is hypervascular mass on the liver?
The differential diagnosis of hypervascular hepatic lesions depends on the status of the remainder of the organ. If the liver is normal, the most common causes of hypervascular liver lesions are hemangioma, focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH), adenoma, and hypervascular metastasis.
Which liver tumors are benign?
Causes and Symptoms of Benign Tumors. Many times the underlying causes of a benign tumor is unknown.
What is the treatment for liver mass?
Surgery may be needed to treat a liver mass. Treatment might be based on the type or stage of liver mass. Liver mass often requires no treatment at all. One type of surgery for a liver mass involves cutting off the blood supply to the primary artery supplying blood to the mass.