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A 3-month-old infant with obvious hypertrophy affecting the right arm, leg, and face presented with a haemangioendothelioma arising from the right lobe of the liver that was not associated with cardiac failure. At diagnostic laparotomy the nature of the mass was confirmed and the right hepatic artery was ligated. Follow-up examination at 10 months revealed complete resolution of the intrahepatic mass. This appears to be the first report of an association between hemihypertrophy and hepatic haemangioendothelioma.
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Davenport, M., Mieli-Vergani, G. & Howard, E.R. Infantile hepatic haemangioendothelioma: an association with hemihypertrophy. Pediatr Surg Int 8, 505–506 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00180356
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