Title
Evaluation of focal liver lesions using triple phase contrast computed tomography among Indian patients
Authors
Arjun Mittal* & R. R Kumbhar
Affiliation
Department of Radiodiagnosis, Krishna Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to Be University), Karad, Maharashtra, India; *Corresponding author
Arjun Mittal - E - mail: dr.mittalarjun@gmail.com
R.R Kumbhar - E - mail: rkumbhar996@gmail.com
Article Type
Research Article
Date
Received October 1, 2024; Revised October 31, 2024; Accepted October 31, 2024, Published October 31, 2024
Abstract
Detecting and characterizing FLL remains a significant challenge in clinical practice. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the patients with FLL using TPC-CT. 80 patients spanned for around 18 months to correlate between CT scan findings & final diagnosis. We found male dominancy with high sensitivity for diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at 73.7%, hemangioma’s at 94.1%, and metastases at 98.4%, whereas specificity for diagnosing all cases when the typical enhancement pattern for each lesion type was considered. We conclude that, tri-phasic CT can be widely accepted CT protocol used for assessing LL, allowing for the detection and characterization of most FL abnormalities (AB-N) across various pathological scenarios and stages of disease.
Keywords
Triphasic computed tomography (CT), detection, characterization, focal liver lesions (FLL), AB-N & hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Citation
Mittal & Kumbhar, Bioinformation 20(10): 1429-1432 (2024)
Edited by
Neelam Goyal & Shruti Dabi
ISSN
0973-2063
Publisher
License
This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
