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Focal fatty infiltration of the liver mimicking metastatic disease
1Cardiac Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report the mistaken diagnosis of metastatic liver disease by ultrasonography in a patient with congestive heart failure and focal fatty infiltration of the liver. Multiple echogenic space-occupying lesions in the liver can be caused by benign conditions as well as tumour deposits and in a debilitated patient the possibility of focal fatty infiltration should always be considered.