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Radiologic Findings of Local Effect of Right Adrenal Pheochromocytoma on the Adjacent Liver: A Case Report  

Rhim, Jung-Hyo (Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital)
Cho, Jeong-Yeon (Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital)
Kim, Seung-Hyup (Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Hospital)
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Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging / v.16, no.2, 2012 , pp. 173-176 More about this Journal
Abstract
We report the radiological findings of regional enhancement of the liver adjacent to the right adrenal pheochromocytoma. CT and MRI showed focal strong enhancement of adjacent liver tissue in the arterial phase. However during the delayed phase, the lesion showed iso-attenuation with normal hepatic parenchyma and not delineated. The lesion did not show abnormal signal intensity on neither T1 nor T2 weighted images and indistinguishable from normal parenchyma. The enhancing hepatic lesion was spontaneously regressed on postoperative follow up CT which was taken several months after the adrenalectomy.
Keywords
Pheochromocytoma; Liver; Computed tomography (CT); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI);
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