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What Does This CT Scan Report Indicate?
Question: I had an incidental finding of incresed attenuation seen at top of my liver, 3cm.
What the differential on that?
What the differential on that?
Brief Answer:
can be due to malignant or benign causes
Detailed Answer:
HI, thanks for using healthcare magic
Attenuation or decreased intensity may be localized to a particular area or generalized throughout the liver.
The possible causes would vary according to whether it is localized or generalized.
Yours may be localized since you quoted ' increased attenuation at the top, 3 cm'.
Localized attenuation may be due to benign (non cancerous) or malignant changes.
Benign lesions such as simple cysts of the liver, cysts of the bile tract in the liver, abscess, hemorrhagic cyst (collection of a sac with blood), solid benign masses such as an adenoma, hemangioma or focal nodular hyperplasia (increased growth of a localized area of the liver.
It is also possible that the changes may be related to more serious causes such as cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) but this is not as common as a benign cause.
The repeat CT scan would give more answers.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask any other questions
can be due to malignant or benign causes
Detailed Answer:
HI, thanks for using healthcare magic
Attenuation or decreased intensity may be localized to a particular area or generalized throughout the liver.
The possible causes would vary according to whether it is localized or generalized.
Yours may be localized since you quoted ' increased attenuation at the top, 3 cm'.
Localized attenuation may be due to benign (non cancerous) or malignant changes.
Benign lesions such as simple cysts of the liver, cysts of the bile tract in the liver, abscess, hemorrhagic cyst (collection of a sac with blood), solid benign masses such as an adenoma, hemangioma or focal nodular hyperplasia (increased growth of a localized area of the liver.
It is also possible that the changes may be related to more serious causes such as cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) but this is not as common as a benign cause.
The repeat CT scan would give more answers.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask any other questions
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