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What Does Increased Hepatic Echogenicity With Poor Penetration Mean?

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Posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2017
Question: What does increased hepatic echogenicity with poor penetration mean?
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Answered by Dr. Ramesh Kumar (46 minutes later)
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Most commonly increased echogenicity means there is increased fat in the liver.In other words fatty liver changes are the most common cause of increased liver echogenicity in a asymptomatic patient.
Poor penetration means that resolution of the images are not very good.Most common cause of poor resolution is thickened abdominal wall.

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What Does Increased Hepatic Echogenicity With Poor Penetration Mean?

Brief Answer: Details below! Detailed Answer: Hi, Thanks for choosing HCM. Most commonly increased echogenicity means there is increased fat in the liver.In other words fatty liver changes are the most common cause of increased liver echogenicity in a asymptomatic patient. Poor penetration means that resolution of the images are not very good.Most common cause of poor resolution is thickened abdominal wall. Thank you.