Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Abdomen, Liver, MR physics, CT, MR, Ultrasound, Diagnostic procedure, Cirrhosis, Metabolic disorders, Parasites
Authors:
A. Michael-Fernández, E. Antolinos-Macho, E. Canales-Lachen, A. Salgado-Parente, A. González-Huete, S. Ventura Díaz, A. Villanueva, M. I. Garcia Gomez Muriel, M. C. Gonzalez Gordaliza
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2023/C-18245
Background
Diffuse liver disease is a very frequent entity in imaging studies that can be found in different pathologies: vascular disease, storage liver diseases, inflammatory-infectious processes, infiltrative lesions, or even alterations secondary to certain treatments. Knowing the physiopathology of these processes and their radiological correlation may lead us to an appropriate diagnosis when dealing with case of diffuse liver affectation.
Diffuse liver disease can be classified in different ways. Here we are going to expose two different ways: according to their pathogenesis and to their radiological presentation patterns.
- a) PATHOGENESIS
- Cirrhosis.
- Vascular disease (Budd-Chiari, sinusoidal obstruction syndrome and congestive hepatopathy).
- Metabolic disease: steatosis and steatohepatitis.
- Storage liver disease: iron overload, Wilson disease and amyloidosis.
- Tumoral: diffuse metastatic disease and lymphoma. Pseudocirrhosis.
- Inflammatory / infectious: fungal infections, granulomatous disease (sarcoidosis, TB, histoplasmosis), parasites (schistosomiasis) and viral infections (hepatitis B virus and HIV). Autoimmune diseases.