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Rare disease
Angiosarcoma of the liver as a cause of fulminant liver failure
  1. Marco Montell García1,
  2. Raúl Romero Cabello1,2,
  3. Raul Romero Feregrino3,
  4. Mercado Atri Moises4,
  5. Rafael Trejo Estrada5,
  6. Padilla-Rodríguez Alvaro6,7,
  7. Gama Moreno Manlio Gerardo8,
  8. Romero Feregrino Rodrigo3
  1. 1Department of Infectology, Hospital General de México, Mexico City, Mexico D F, Mexico
  2. 2Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  3. 3Department of Infectology, Instituto para el Desarrollo Integral de la Salud (IDISA), Mexico City, Mexico D F, Mexico
  4. 4Endocrinology, Centro Médico ABC, México
  5. 5Gastroenterology, Centro Médico ABC, México DF, México
  6. 6Departament of Pathology, Centro Médico ABC, México DF, México
  7. 7Departament of Pathology, Universidad Panamericana, México
  8. 8Departament of Nuclear Medicine, Centro Médico ABC, México
  1. Correspondence to Dr Raul Romero Feregrino, drraulromeroferegrino{at}hotmail.com

Primary liver sarcomas make up 2% of all malignant neoplasms of the liver; of these, angiosarcoma is the most common type. Primary liver tumours rarely cause fulminant hepatic failure (FHF), which is most frequently caused by non-neoplasmic pathologies. In the case of neoplasms, the most frequent are lymphoma and metastatic carcinomas. We describe the case of a 76-year-old man who suffered from FHF as a result of a liver angiosarcoma and we present a review of the medical literature in which we found only two cases of liver angiosarcomas linked to FHF.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2012-006417

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