jj9500
01-09-2006, 11:43 AM
I had a CT done on the abdomen to further investigate some burnining sensations I've been having in my upper stomach area. The CT results showed three small lesions on my liver which doc wanted to futher investigate with an MRI. The MRI results were emailed to me stating everything looked fine and they were benign areas called HEMANGIOMAs - what is this? Are they tumors, cysts, blook vessles? Has anybody ever had these - is it something to be concerned about. I've been waiting for a call back from my docs office to further explain things to me. He's taking MUCH longer to get back to me than what I expected ! Thanks.
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razz123
01-09-2006, 06:01 PM
A quick Google search brought up the following :
Hemangioma is the most common benign tumor affecting the liver. Hepatic hemangiomas are mesenchymal in origin and usually are solitary. Hemangiomas are composed of masses of blood vessels that are atypical or irregular in arrangement and size.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic964.htm
Looks like you should be fine.
Hemangioma is the most common benign tumor affecting the liver. Hepatic hemangiomas are mesenchymal in origin and usually are solitary. Hemangiomas are composed of masses of blood vessels that are atypical or irregular in arrangement and size.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic964.htm
Looks like you should be fine.
feelbad
01-10-2006, 10:12 AM
I had one of these little SOBs inside of my spinal cord.they are basically little globs of venously fed blood vessels,not aterial so they are low pressure.tho they can bleed from time to time it is usually just a bit of an ooze.they are kind of unpredictable as far as when or what actually would trigger an actual bleed.in the spinal cord a bleed can be devistating,but in your liver,the risks would be very minimal.mine bled twice and since there is no actual room or 'give" inside the cord,it caused me some major problems and it needed to be removed.but the liver is not this way in its structure so any ooze would probably just be reabsorbed and NOT life threatening in any way.luckily for you this is the low pressure type of the vasular malformations, on the flip side AVMs are basically the same type of thing but are very high pressure and can cause many many major issues.these are actually most common in the brain and spinal cord.i would think that your angiomas would not cause you any real big issues to have to deal with.Just would probably have to be monitored once in a while with an ultrasound orMRI.no biggie,really.Marcia