What is a hepatic hemangioma?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-02T08:25:10

A tangle of dilated blood vessels causing a non-cancerous tumour in the liver.

Hepatic haemangiomas are tumours in the liver that are formed by dilated blood vessels.

They are non-cancerous (non-malignant) and usually harmless.

Occasionally they might cause bleeding, or might rupture causing an enlarged liver.

Treatment is given only if it causes prolonged pain.