Case Report
Hepatic teratoma and peritoneal gliomatosis: a case report
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* Corresponding author: Christoph Karlo christoph.karlo@usz.ch
1 Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100; 8091 Zurich/Switzerland
2 Institute of Clinical Pathology, University Hospital Zurich, Raemistrasse 100; 8091 Zurich/Switzerland
3 Department of Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Zurich/Raemistrasse 100; 8091 Zurich/Switzerland
Cases Journal 2009, 2:9302 doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9302
Published: 10 December 2009Abstract
The hepatic teratoma is a very rare entity of which only 25 cases have been published so far. In our case the hepatic teratoma is associated with peritoneal gliomatosis, which is an indicator for an ongoing peritoneal spread of a teratoma. Wall calcifications and the homogeneity as well as the well defined border misled the radiologist to the diagnosis of an echinococcal cyst, which is the most common differential diagnosis, however the hepatic teratoma has to be taking into consideration when dealing with unclear hepatic cysts, although it is very rare.