Research Article
Hepatic Hemangioma in Celiac Patients: Data from a Large Consecutive Series
Table 2
Characteristics of US findings in celiac disease (CD) patients and in controls.
| | CD (#97) | Controls (#1352) | |
| HH, # (%) | 14 (14.4) | 69 (5.1) | 0.0009 | Prevalence of HH by gender | | | | Females, # (%) | 13/79 (16.4) | 46/771 (5.9) | 0.002 | Males, # (%) | 1/18 (5.6) | 23/581 (3.9) | n.s. | Number of lesions | | | | Single, # (%) | 12 (85.7) | 59 (85.5) | n.s. | Multiple, # (%) | 2 (14.3) | 10 (14.5) | n.s. | HH diameter (cm); median (range) | 1.3 (0.3–6.8) | 1.5 (0.7–4.6) | n.s. | Atypical feature, # (%) | 1 (1) | 11 (0.81) | n.s. |
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HH: hepatic hemangioma. Hypoechoic or isoechoic lesions, mixed echogenicity, lobulated mass, and blurred margins.
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