Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Normal variants, Technical aspects, Diagnostic procedure, Ultrasound, MR, Paediatric, Abdomen, Congenital, Obstruction / Occlusion, Liver
Authors:
S. A. Bauones, H. Hoang, C. Roman, P. Petit, A. Delarue, G. Gorincour; Marseille/FR
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2012/C-0542
Background
Wandering liver is an exceptional and rare entity in which the liver is freely mobile and displaces in the transverse plane because of hyperlaxity and elongation of the hepatic fixation complex.
It could be acquired or congenital in which there is absence of the hepatic suspensory apparatus.
A lot of synonyms are used including floating liver,
hepatoptosis,
hepatic ectopia and hepar ambulens.
All are terms referring to a situation of hyper mobility of the liver.
Its clinical presentation is variable and non specific.
Therefore,
the diagnosis of wandering liver is not easy.
A variety of diagnostic modalities could be used.
In our cases,
we succeeded to get the diagnosis with a real-time abdominal ultrasound.
We tried to reinforce the ultrasound findings by utilizing cine-MRI sequences with dynamic maneuver.