Gray scale echographic patterns of hepatic metastatic disease.
Abnormal gray scale hepatic echograms in 76 patients with known or suspected metastatic disease were reviewed. A varied echographic pattern was found, with the gray scale appearances falling into three identifiable categories (dense, lucent, and bulls-eye) and a fourth group difficult to characterize. Prior chemotherapy seemed to have little consistent effect on echographic patterns. A pattern of dense lesions was associated in a large percentage of cases with adenocarcinoma. Carcinoma of the colon commonly produced this appearance. The remaining echographic patterns showed little correlation with specific primary sites or cell types.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D001943:Breast Neoplasms; D005770:Gastrointestinal Neoplasms; D006801:Humans; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D014463:Ultrasonography