Hepatic haemangioma—prenatal imaging findings, complications and perinatal outcome in a case series

Abstract

Hepatic haemangioma associated with prenatal cardiac disorders, large volume and more than one enlarged hepatic vein have poorer outcome and require specific perinatal multidisciplinary management.

Fetal hepatic hemangioma: a case report

“…The reported neonatal mortality rate of fetuses diagnosed with liver lesions is 30-100%. 7 This prognosis lead to termination of pregnancy as a possible treatment option prenatally, which was seen in our case too. Since biopsy may result in massive haemorrhage, diagnosis is most often based on characteristic radiological findings of usually well-defined mixed, solid lesions with hypervascularization and fine granular calcifications.…”

Prenatal diagnosis of cerebral and extracerebral high‐flow lesions revealing familial capillary malformation‐arteriovenous malformation (CM‐AVM) syndrome

“…High‐flow lesions diagnosed in the prenatal period are represented mainly by rapidly involuting congenital hemangioma of the soft tissues, hepatic hemangioma or vein of Galen aneurysmal malformation (VGAM). We report here the prenatal diagnosis of two cases of cerebral and extracerebral high‐flow lesions, which led to identification of familial capillary malformation‐arteriovenous malformation (CM‐AVM) syndrome, related to RASA1 mutation.…”

Postnatal verification of prenatal diagnoses established on foetal magnetic resonance imaging

“…Liver tumours account for about 5% of all congenital tumours [27]. Mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver is the second (after haemangioma) most common congenital liver tumour (constitutes about 23%) [28]. Its origin is not always clear, as it was both in a girl examined prenatally at our centre at 30 GW (final diagnosis was made postnatally after surgery), and in 3 patients analysed by Alamo et al [27].…”