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Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report
BACKGROUND: Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) of the liver is a rare liver lesion. It is considered difficult to differentiate radiologically from hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic liver tumor and other pathologies. CASE SUMMARY: A 54-year-old woman presented to our hospital with RLH of the liv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674723/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33269264 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i21.5313 |
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author | Tanaka, Taro Saito, Kazuhiro Yunaiyama, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Jun Nagakawa, Yuichi Tanigawa, Maki Nagao, Toshitaka |
author_facet | Tanaka, Taro Saito, Kazuhiro Yunaiyama, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Jun Nagakawa, Yuichi Tanigawa, Maki Nagao, Toshitaka |
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description | BACKGROUND: Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) of the liver is a rare liver lesion. It is considered difficult to differentiate radiologically from hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic liver tumor and other pathologies. CASE SUMMARY: A 54-year-old woman presented to our hospital with RLH of the liver. The patient had a diagnosis of metastatic carcinoma of the liver from an unknown origin and subsequently underwent partial hepatectomy. However, histopathological analysis revealed RLH. The lesion showed perinodular enhancement in the arterial phase on contrast-enhanced computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. On diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), we encountered linear hyperintensity along the portal tract consecutive to the liver lesion, which is a new characteristic radiologic finding. This finding corresponded to the lymphoid cell infiltration of the portal tract. Furthermore, there was strongly restricted diffusion on the apparent diffusion coefficient map. We used these characteristic radiologic findings to diagnose the lesion as a lymphoproliferative disease. CONCLUSION: The linear hyperintensity consecutive to the liver lesion on DWI provided additional valuable diagnostic information. |
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spelling | pubmed-76747232020-12-01 Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report Tanaka, Taro Saito, Kazuhiro Yunaiyama, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Jun Nagakawa, Yuichi Tanigawa, Maki Nagao, Toshitaka World J Clin Cases Case Report BACKGROUND: Reactive lymphoid hyperplasia (RLH) of the liver is a rare liver lesion. It is considered difficult to differentiate radiologically from hepatocellular carcinoma, metastatic liver tumor and other pathologies. CASE SUMMARY: A 54-year-old woman presented to our hospital with RLH of the liver. The patient had a diagnosis of metastatic carcinoma of the liver from an unknown origin and subsequently underwent partial hepatectomy. However, histopathological analysis revealed RLH. The lesion showed perinodular enhancement in the arterial phase on contrast-enhanced computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. On diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), we encountered linear hyperintensity along the portal tract consecutive to the liver lesion, which is a new characteristic radiologic finding. This finding corresponded to the lymphoid cell infiltration of the portal tract. Furthermore, there was strongly restricted diffusion on the apparent diffusion coefficient map. We used these characteristic radiologic findings to diagnose the lesion as a lymphoproliferative disease. CONCLUSION: The linear hyperintensity consecutive to the liver lesion on DWI provided additional valuable diagnostic information. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020-11-06 2020-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7674723/ /pubmed/33269264 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i21.5313 Text en ©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Tanaka, Taro Saito, Kazuhiro Yunaiyama, Daisuke Matsubayashi, Jun Nagakawa, Yuichi Tanigawa, Maki Nagao, Toshitaka Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report |
title | Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report |
title_full | Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report |
title_fullStr | Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report |
title_short | Diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: A case report |
title_sort | diffusion-weighted imaging might be useful for reactive lymphoid hyperplasia diagnosis of the liver: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7674723/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33269264 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i21.5313 |
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