SUBTOTAL LIVER CALCIFICATION DUE TO EPITHELIOID HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA

A hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma leading to almost complete calcification of the right and left liver lobes in a 75-year-old femal e is reported. Over a period of 16 years the liver progressively calci fied, but its function remained normal by compensatory hypertrophy of the caudate lobe. Multiple partially calcified metastases were present in thp lungs, peripancreatic region and along the left principal bron chus. Extreme liver calcification has only rarely been reported. The c ase presented here reflected slow tumor growth and subsequent long dis ease course. The vascular nature of the tumor was confirmed by immunoh istochemical and ultrastructural analysis.