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Radiology, Vol 208, 597-603, Copyright © 1998 by Radiological Society of North America

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Nontumorous arterioportal shunt mimicking hypervascular tumor in cirrhotic liver: two-phase spiral CT findings

TK Kim, BI Choi, JK Han, JW Chung, JH Park and MC Han
Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea.

PURPOSE: To determine the two-phase (hepatic arterial phase [HAP] and portal venous phase [PVP]) spiral computed tomographic (CT) findings of a nontumorous arterioportal shunt in the cirrhotic liver that can mimic a hypervascular tumor. MATERIALS AND METHODS: For 14 months, 803 patients with known or suspected hepatocellular carcinoma were referred for initial or repeated transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE). Twenty-nine hyperattenuating lesions on HAP CT images obtained in 25 patients (23 men, two women; age range, 39-70 years) were regarded as nontumorous arterioportal shunts and were included in this study. The diagnosis of nontumorous arterioportal shunt was established by four radiologists who reviewed the two-phase spiral CT images and hepatic angiograms. RESULTS: The longest dimension of the lesion was 1.0-7.9 cm (mean dimension, 2.9 cm). The morphology at HAP CT was wedge- shaped in 25 (86%), geographic (ie, focal area with irregular outline) in two (7%), and nodular in two (7%) lesions. All lesions were homogeneous in attenuation. Hyperattenuating linear branching structures that represented early opacification of portal veins were demonstrated during the HAP in nine (31%) lesions. PVP CT images showed these lesions as isoattenuating (n = 20 [69%]) or slightly hyperattenuating (n = 9 [31%]). Iodized oil CT images showed faint or no accumulation of iodized oil in all lesions. CONCLUSION: In cirrhotic liver, nontumorous arterioportal shunts can be a cause of pseudolesions that mimic hypervascular tumors at two-phase spiral CT. Lesions that have the typical wedge-shaped and homogeneous appearance with or without internal linear branching structures during the HAP and that are isoattenuating or slightly hyperattenuating during the PVP can suggest this unusual condition.


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