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Nontumorous attenuation differences on computed tomographic portography
B Van Beers1, J Pringot, J F Gigot
1Department of Radiology, St-Luc University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.
Gastrointestinal Radiology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
Nineteen patients with suspected hepatic neoplasms underwent dynamic computed tomography (CT) and computed tomographic porotography (CTP) in a preoperative setting. Nontumorous attenuation differences in the liver were observed in 8 patients (42%) with CTP and in 2 patients (10.5%) with dynamic CT (p less than 0.05). Although nontumorous attenuation differences are significantly more frequent with CTP than with dynamic CT, they are seldom a diagnostic problem because of their geographic pattern.