Document Type
Article
Department
Radiology
Abstract
We present a rare case of histologically proven neurofibromatosis of the liver, hepatic hilum, retroperitoneum, and mesentery. An adult male who had been diagnosed with neurofibromatosis (NF) type 1 underwent a computed tomography (CT) scan for abdominal pain and vomiting. The CT scan showed a large low-attenuating lesion in the region of porta hepatis which was infiltrating along portal tracts into the liver, encasing the major vessels, and extending into the retroperitoneum and mesentery. Based on the radiological findings, a differential diagnosis of plexiform neurofibroma was given, although sarcomatous transformation could not have been entirely excluded from imaging alone. The tumor was subsequently biopsied, and the histopathological analysis confirmed the diagnosis of neurofibroma. This case highlights the importance and diagnostic dilemmas in the presence of this tumor at atypical locations in this disease spectrum
Publication (Name of Journal)
Cureus.
Recommended Citation
Khandwala, K.,
Sajjad, Z.,
Abbasi, S.,
Tariq, M.
(2018). Hepatic, periportal, retroperitoneal, and mesenteric neurofibromatosis in von recklinghausen's disease. Cureus., 28(10).
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