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Hemangiomas appear macroscopically as dark, raised foci or small nodular areas and are generally soft in texture. They occasionally occur in association with hepatocellular neoplasms and tend to hemorrhage easily, which may result in fatal intra-abdominal bleeding.
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Brooks, P.N., Roe, F.J.C. (1997). Hemangioma, Liver, Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Popp, J.A., Mohr, U. (eds) Digestive System. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60473-7_8
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