What is the most common benign tumour of the liver?

• A Cavernous haemangioma ✓
• B Focal nodular hyperplasia
• C Hepatocellular adenoma
• D Bile duct hamartoma (von Meyenburg complex)

Explanation

Cavernous haemangioma is the most common benign tumour of the liver, found incidentally in up to 20% of autopsy series. It is a vascular lesion that may show rapid contrast pooling on CT and must be distinguished from metastases before biopsy, since bleeding is a risk. Focal nodular hyperplasia and hepatic adenoma are far less common, and von Meyenburg complexes are developmental malformations rather than true neoplasms.

Reference: Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease, 10th ed.

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