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Table 3 Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of five patients with hepatic sclerosed hemangioma

From: Hepatic sclerosed hemangioma with special attention to diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging

Case

Border

Fatty tissue

T1-weighted T2-weighted

Dynamic MRI findings

ADC mean (×10–3 mm2/s)

Fat-suppressed T1-weighted

Early phase

Late phase

Hepatocyte phase

Degenerative area

Non-degenerative area

Case 1

Lobulated shape

Hypo

Hyper

Hypo

Ring enhancement

Progressive centripetal fill-in

Defect

1.65

1.80

1.56

1.61

1.75

2.00

Case 2

Lobulated shape

Hypo

Hyper

Hypo

Peripheral nodular enhancement

Progressive centripetal fill-in

Defect

1.87

1.80

1.80

1.86

1.93

1.72

Case 3

Lobulated shape

Hypo

Hyper

Hypo

Ring enhancement

Progressive centripetal fill-in

Defect

2.07

2.16

2.09

Case 4

Lobulated shape

Hypo

Hyper

Hypo

Ring enhancement

Hypo

Defect

2.00

1.93

1.96

Case 5*

Lobulated shape

Hypo

Hyper

Hypo

Peripheral nodular enhancement

Iso-hypo

Defect

1.94

2.23

1.95

2.12

1.90

2.38

  1. ADC apparent diffusion coefficient, Hypo hypo intensity, Hyper hyper intensity
  2. *The results were obtained using 1.5-tesla MRI