liver — Clinical MRI

Hepatic Hemangioma

July 6, 2013 by Dr Gregory Chaljub, MD

A 55 year old woman with an incidental finding on an MRI of the thoracic spine. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: Benign Hepatic Mass, liver, liver mass

This 54 year old woman presented to the gastroenterology clinic complaining of abdominal pain. A right upper quadrant ultrasound was performed demonstrating an ill-defined hypoechoic hepatic mass. MRI was recommended for further evaluation. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: liver, liver mass, malignant hepatic tumor

Subcapsular/extracapsular hematoma

July 6, 2013 by J. Ryan Mikus, MD, MS

This is a 54-year-old Caucasian male with a past medical history of polymyositis and recent outside hospital admission for biliary tree obstruction with subsequent ERCP, cholecystectomy, and liver biopsy. He was admitted to our institution with elevated LFTs and abdominal pain. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: liver

Cholangiocarcinoma

July 6, 2013 by Nirav A. Patel, MD, MBA

This is a 71-year-old male who presented with a diagnosis of adenocarcinoma with uknownn primary and liver metastases. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: liver, liver mass, Malignant Hepatic Mass

Hepatocellular Carcinoma

July 6, 2013 by Dr Sandra Parada Orrego, MD

65 year old woman being evaluated for liver transplant. The patient has a history of hepatocellular carcinoma status post RFA in 2005. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: liver, Malignant Hepatic Mass

Metastatic breast cancer

July 6, 2013 by Dr Harisha Kommana, MD

This is a 59-year-old female with a history of infiltrating ductal breast cancer, s/p partial mastectomy in 2007 and radiotherapy in 2008. [...]

Filed Under: Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: liver, liver mass, metastases

Two liver lesions – hemangioma and focal nodular hyperplasia

July 6, 2013 by Raghuram K. Rao, MD, MPH

This is a 38 year old female who had a CT performed for nonrelated reasons, but had incidentally detected liver masses. An MRI was ordered for further workup. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: Benign Hepatic Mass, liver, liver mass

Revisiting Liver Imaging with VIBE

July 5, 2013 by Vamsi Narra, MD

Volume Interpolated Breath-hold Examination (VIBE) offers three-dimensional multiphase image acquisition before and following contrast administration on a breath-hold time scale. The dynamic behavior of liver lesions and structures during the precontrast, arterial, portal venous, early equilibrium and 5-minute delayed equilibrium phases of enhancement allows more accurate characterization than static pre- and postcontrast analysis. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, Clinical Imaging, liver, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: breathhold, dynamic contrast enhanced MRI, fat suppression, liver, upper abdomen, VIBE

Case Report: Metastases from Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: Value of Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging Compared to 68Ga-DOTATOC PET-CT

July 5, 2013 by Bernhard Klumpp, MD

Neuroendocrine tumors may be challenging to diagnose. Diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) plays an important role in the accurate detection of liver lesions, which may be occult onconventional MRI and especially CT. In the presented case, the suspicion of diffuse hepatic spread is also supported by the additionally performed 68Ga-DOTATOC PET. The article shows, that DWI […] [...]

Filed Under: Clinical Imaging, Clinical Updates, liver
Tagged With: diffusion, liver, metastases