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Benign Liver Tumors

by Carlo Raj, MD

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    00:01 Benign Liver Tumors.

    00:03 We'll pay special focus on Adenoma.

    00:06 Especially being caused or associated with use of oral contraceptive pills in women.

    00:11 These patients will be presenting with bleeding on the right upper quadrant pain.

    00:16 Resection is recommended due to the risk of malignancy Even if though you call this an adenoma, there is no guarantee that you may not go into, malignancy. Keep that in mind.

    00:27 Another important benign type of growth or proliferation, is called focal-nodular hyperplasia It's a benign vascular lesion with a characteristic imaging.

    00:39 There is no treatment recommended here.

    00:40 This is just benign. It is just hyperplasia.

    00:44 "Tumor" but this hemangioma.

    00:48 The diagnosis can be confirmed with a CT, ultrasound or RMI.

    00:54 And hemangioma means, you have a dilated blood vessel in which there is accumulation of blood in that blood vessel especially in the liver


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    The lecture Benign Liver Tumors by Carlo Raj, MD is from the course Liver Diseases: Basic Principles with Carlo Raj.


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    1. Hepatic adenoma
    2. Hepatoma
    3. Cholangiocarcinoma
    4. Dubin-Johnson syndrome
    5. Focal nodular hyperplasia
    1. Hepatic adenoma
    2. Budd-Chiari syndrome
    3. Cavernous hemangioma
    4. Dubin-Johnson syndrome
    5. Focal nodular hyperplasia
    1. Vascular cells
    2. Fibrocytes
    3. Hepatocytes
    4. Bile ducts
    5. Von Kupffer cells

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     Carlo Raj, MD

    Carlo Raj, MD


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    What about Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
    By Hamed S. on 15. March 2017 for Benign Liver Tumors

    Missed another important benign tumour of the liver that would have been worthwhile covering