Alcoholic liver disease CT
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: M. Khurram Afzal, MD [2]
Overview
Abdominal CT scan may be helpful in the diagnosis of alcoholic liver disease. Findings on CT scan suggestive of hepatic steatosis and cirrhosis may be seen.
CT scan
- Findings on CT scan suggestive of alcoholic liver disease include:
- Non-contrast CT scan for detecting hepatic steatosis:[1][2]
- Macroscopic fat in the liver
- Liver to spleen attenuation ratio greater than ten hounsfield units indicates hepatic steatosis
- Cirrhosis:[3]
- Atrophy of the right lobe of the liver
- Hypertrophy of the caudate lobe of the liver
- Hypertrophy of the lateral segment of the left lobe
- Parenchymal nodularity
- Attenuation of hepatic vasculature
- Splenomegaly
- Venous collaterals
- Ascites
- Non-contrast CT scan for detecting hepatic steatosis:[1][2]
- CT of a cirrhotic patient shows a liver with a shrunken, nodular appearance.
Source: Wikimedia commons [4]
References
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- ↑ Piekarski J, Goldberg HI, Royal SA, Axel L, Moss AA (1980). “Difference between liver and spleen CT numbers in the normal adult: its usefulness in predicting the presence of diffuse liver disease”. Radiology. 137 (3): 727–9. doi:10.1148/radiology.137.3.6934563. PMID 6934563.
- ↑ Rofsky NM, Fleishaker H (1995). “CT and MRI of diffuse liver disease”. Semin. Ultrasound CT MR. 16 (1): 16–33. PMID 7718279.
- ↑ “File:Morbus-Osler-CT-Leber-ax-012.jpg – Wikimedia Commons”. External link in
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