There are several tumors that are noted to cause hypervascular metastases. The list of differential diagnoses includes:
- renal cell carcinoma (RCC)
- breast cancer: homogeneously hypervascular liver metastases from the breast are considered rare 3
- lung cancer
- neuroendocrine tumors
- papillary thyroid carcinoma - most common cause in the neck 4
- melanoma
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- choriocarcinoma
- leiomyosarcoma
- paraganglioma