Gamut of Focal Fatty Lesions in the Liver: Imaging Manifestations with Emphasis on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
A wide variety of hepatic lesions contain fat within them in a proportion good enough to be demonstrable on imaging. With the biological behaviors quite different from each other, they form a clinico-radio-pathologic spectrum worth remembering. We present a review of common and uncommon focal hepatic lesions containing fat (micro- and macroscopic) within them and emphasize the role of imaging in their diagnosis.
aDepartment of Diagnostic Imaging, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada
bDepartment of Radiology, University of Texas HSC at Houston, Houston, TX
Reprint requests: Najla Fasih, MBBS, The Ottawa Hospital, Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Civic Campus, 1053 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1Y 4E9, Canada