Alcoholic hepatitis masquerading as tumor infiltration: Reversibility after abstinence

A subset of patients with alcoholic hepatitis present with atypical imaging resembling hepatic tumor infiltration. Our case involves a patient who was initially thought to have multiple large hepatic metastases, ultimately found to have alcoholic hepatitis. It is essential to ask about alcohol use w...

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Published inClinical case reports Vol. 7; no. 11; pp. 2174 - 2176
Main Authors Gluskin, Adam B., Dueker, Jeffrey M., El Hag, Mohamed, Puthenpurayil, Kurian J., Bataller, Ramon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.11.2019
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Wiley
Subjects
Abdomen
Alcohol use
alcoholic hepatitis
Case Report
Case Reports
geographic fatty infiltration
Hepatitis
Hypertension
Laboratories
Liver
liver biopsy
Liver cancer
Localization
Patients
alcoholic hepatitis
geographic fatty infiltration
hepatitis
liver biopsy
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Summary:A subset of patients with alcoholic hepatitis present with atypical imaging resembling hepatic tumor infiltration. Our case involves a patient who was initially thought to have multiple large hepatic metastases, ultimately found to have alcoholic hepatitis. It is essential to ask about alcohol use when clinical suspicion is high. A subset of patients with alcoholic hepatitis present with atypical imaging resembling hepatic tumor infiltration. Our case involves a patient who was initially thought to have multiple large hepatic metastases, ultimately found to have alcoholic hepatitis. It is essential to ask about alcohol use when clinical suspicion is high.
ISSN:2050-0904
2050-0904
DOI:10.1002/ccr3.2448