CASE REPORT article

Front. Oncol.

Sec. Gastrointestinal Cancers: Hepato Pancreatic Biliary Cancers

Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fonc.2025.1534250

Computed tomography and MRI imaging features of primary liver perivascular epithelioid cell tumor with renal angiomyolipoma: a case report and literature review

Provisionally accepted
Ruoling  GaoRuoling Gao*Jiaying  LiuJiaying LiuQingdian  CongQingdian CongZhilan  HuangZhilan HuangGuoping  ZhuGuoping ZhuXuan  JinXuan JinJIbo  HUJIbo HU
  • International Institutes of Medicine, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Yiwu, China

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Hepatic perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) is an extremely rare mesenchymal tumor. The disease has few specific clinical symptoms and imaging manifestations, making its accurate diagnosis an intractable clinical challenge. This is a report of a female patient diagnosed with lesions and a mass in the left lobe of the liver. Computed tomography (CT) findings showed that the scan without a contrast agent had slightly low density, and significant enhancement was seen in the arterial phase of the enhanced scan, with numerous tortuous arteries. The enhancement slightly decreased in the equilibrium phase and the delayed phase. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings were low signal for T1-weighted images (T1WI), high signal for T2weighted images (T2WI), and the enhancement pattern of the enhanced scan was similar to that of CT. Subsequently, the patient underwent surgical excision to remove the tumor. Based on the positive immunohistochemical staining for human melanoma black 45 (HMB45), Smooth Muscle Actin (SMA) and melanin-A (Melan-A), a definitive diagnosis was made. Given that the pathological findings indicate low-grade malignancy, regular follow-up should be conducted. The patient presented with multiple fatty lesions in both kidneys, with the larger one located in the lower part of the left kidney, which was eventually confirmed as angiomyolipoma through surgical pathology. And a literature review was carried out on the clinical features and imaging findings of hepatic perivascular epithelioma, and cases with liver PEComa and kidney AML were described.

Keywords: Liver, Perivascular epithelioid cell tumor, PEComa, renal angiomyolipoma, Imaging manifestations, CT, MRI

Received: 25 Nov 2024; Accepted: 26 May 2025.

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* Correspondence: Ruoling Gao, International Institutes of Medicine, Fourth Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Yiwu, China

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