-When you find a fatty lesion in the liver parenchyma, you never ever ask for biopsy as it could be angiomyolipoma which may cause severe bleeding.
-You can confirm the nature of the lesion by angiography whatever the method used(CT,MRI or conventional).
-It is a common benign renal mass formed of fat, muscles and vessels.
-40-80% of cases with tuberous sclerosis have angiomyolipoma which are usually small, multiple, bilateral and asymptomatic with M=F.
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