Fat containing liver lesion

Fat containing liver lesions represent a variety of benign and malignant liver lesions may contain macroscopic and/or intracytoplasmic fat in sufficient quantities enabling characterization on imaging studies. Most fat-containing liver lesions (80%) in patients with cirrhosis are malignant, most of which are hepatocellular carcinoma .

Differential diagnosis

Benign

• focal fatty change
• hepatic angiomyolipoma
• focal nodular hyperplasia
• hepatic lipoma
• pseudolipoma of the Glisson capsule
• xanthomatous lesion of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH)
• hepatic adenoma
• hepatic teratoma
• hepatic adrenal rest tumor: can rarely have malignant transformation
• post-operative: pack using omental tissue
• tamoxifen-induced reversible steatosis
• hepatic myelolipoma

Malignant

• hepatocellular carcinoma
• primary or secondary liposarcoma

See also

• hyperechoic liver lesions

Siehe auch:

• Leberzirrhose
• Steatosis hepatis
• Leberadenom
• lipomatöse Impression der Vena cava inferior
• Fokale noduläre Hyperplasie
• echoreiche Leberherde
• fokale Leberverfettung
• Angiomyolipom der Leber
• Liposarkom der Leber
• Leberlipom
• fetthaltiges hepatozelluläres Karzinom
• Langerhans' cell histiocytosis of the liver

und weiter:

• hypodense Leberläsionen
• multifokale noduläre Steatosis hepatis
• Focal steatosis
• multiple hepatic lipomas
• Histiozytosis X der Leber