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. 2012 Aug 8;2012:891787. doi: 10.1155/2012/891787

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.