“Incidentaloma” of the Liver: Management of a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma

Table 2

Tumour-associated demographics [1, 3, 10, 11, 18].

	Prevalence	Age	F: M	Location	Size	Specialties
Hemangioma	5–20%	35–65	2–6 : 1	Subcapsular 90%; unifocal	<5–30 cm	Synchronic hemangioma in skin, lung, or brain (10–15%); partly pregnancy-associated increase of size; with partial thrombosis often acute pain; rarely DIC (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome)
FNH	2-3%	30–50	8 : 1	Subcapsular 80%; unifocal	<5–15 cm	Growing: association with OC; rarely clin. symptoms
Adenoma	Rare; (incidence: 0,3: 100000 pat. pera^*)	25–45	10 : 1	Subcapsular; often unifocal	5–15 cm; rare up to 30 cm	Arise and growth: association with OC (>5 years),; diabetes mellitus, androgen or steroid use, male gender, glycogen storage disease, often symptomatic

^*a: year, OC: oral contraceptive, DIC: disseminated intravascular coagulopathy.