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Clinical Practice

Hepatic Adenoma Scholarly Peer-review Journal

 Hepatocellular adenomas occur mainly in women of childbearing age, particularly those that use oral contraceptives. Usually, these tumors cause no symptoms, so most remain undetected. Large adenomas may cause pain in the upper right part of the abdomen. Rarely, a hepatocellular adenoma suddenly ruptures and bleeds into the abdominal cavity, requiring emergency surgery. Very rarely, these tumors become cancerous. An adenoma is usually suspected when an imaging test, such as ultrasonography, computed tomography (CT), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is done and shows an abnormality. Sometimes a biopsy is needed to confirm the diagnosis. Hepatocellular adenomas caused by oral contraceptive use may disappear when the woman stops taking the drug. If adenomas are large or located near the surface of the liver, surgery could also be recommended because bleeding may be a risk. Hepatic adenomas are, ordinarily, all around outlined knobs that comprise of sheets of hepatocytes with a bubbly vacuolated cytoplasm. The hepatocytes are on an ordinary reticulin platform and less or equivalent to three cell thick. The histologic determination of hepatic adenomas can be helped by reticulin recoloring. In hepatic adenomas, the reticulin framework is safeguarded and hepatocytes don't shape layers of at least four hepatocytes, as is seen in hepatocellular carcinoma. Cells take after typical hepatocytes and are navigated by veins however need entrance tracts or focal veins.  

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