A Diagnosis of Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Liver by Contrast Enhaced Ultrasound and Fine-Needle Biopsy: A Case Report

Gesualdo, Annamaria and Tamburrano, Rossana and Gentile, Antonia and Palasciano, Giuseppe and Palmieri, Vincenzo O. A Diagnosis of Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Liver by Contrast Enhaced Ultrasound and Fine-Needle Biopsy: A Case Report. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 4 (2). ISSN 2284-2594

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Abstract

Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) of the liver is a rare, benign lesion of unclear etiology, which may be misdiagnosed as hepatocellular carcinoma, cholangiocarcinoma, secondary tumor or abscess, because of its non-specific clinical, biochemical and radiologic findings. We present the case of a 48-old-year male in whom diagnosis of liver IPT was suspected by contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and confirmed by fine-needle liver biopsy. The diagnosis is in contrast to most of the literature reports in which the diagnosis was made only based on a surgical specimen.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Liver, Inflammatory pseudotumor, Ultrasound, Biopsy
Subjects: 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici)
Depositing User: Michela Donatelli
Date Deposited: 08 May 2017 13:10
Last Modified: 08 May 2017 13:10
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/16179

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