Fig. 8
From: Liver imaging and pregnancy: what to expect when your patient is expecting
Hepatocellular adenoma evolution during pregnancy in a 29-year-old woman, 39th week of pregnancy, presenting with sudden and strong acute pain in right upper abdomen, associated drop of hemoglobin levels (Hb = 10 g/dL). Axial CT scan on delayed phase (a) shows a tumor (*) measuring more than 5 cm, with active bleeding (arrow) and hemoperitoneum (arrowhead). Due to patient instability, arterial embolization combining gelatin sponge injection and selective distal coiling was performed (b) followed by fetal extraction. Six years after the event, axial scan, T1w MRI (c) shows shrinkage of the lesion