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Hemangioma hepático - Treatment

Nombres alternativos

Hemangioma del hígado; Hemangioma hepático cavernoso; Hemangioendotelioma infantil; Hemangiomatosis hepática multinodular

Tratamiento:

La mayoría de los hemangiomas hepáticos cavernosos se tratan sólo si hay un dolor persistente.

El tratamiento para el hemangioendotelioma infantil depende del crecimiento y desarrollo del niño. Se pueden necesitar los siguientes tratamientos:

Introducir un material en un vaso sanguíneo del hígado para bloquearlo (embolización).
Ligadura de la arteria hepática.
Medicamentos para la insuficiencia cardíaca.
Cirugía para extirpar el tumor.

Pronóstico:

En bebés cuyo tumor está únicamente en un lóbulo del hígado, la cirugía es una cura, incluso si el niño tiene insuficiencia cardíaca.

Posibles complicaciones:

El embarazo y los medicamentos a base de estrógenos pueden hacer que los hemangiomas cavernosos crezcan.

Angiograma de hemangioma

Tracto urinario masculino

Organos del sistema digestivo

Reviewed last on: 4/17/2011
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

Referencias

DiBisceglie AM, Befeler AS. Tumors and cysts of the liver. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 94.

Roberts LR. Liver and biliary tract tumors. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 206.

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