title: [Distribution of the incidence of sonographically detected focal liver changes in patients with colorectal cancer].
abstract: Aim of the following study was to investigate how often liver metastases are detected in oncologic patients as compared to other focal liver lesions. Preoperative sonographic examinations of 209 patients with proven colonic or rectal cancer were studied. In 19 liver metastases were detected, which in only one patient were homogeneous echogenic. Liver cysts were found in 17, hemangiomas in 15 patients, all of whom where solitary lesions and between 6 and 25 mm in diameter. Focal fatty infiltration was diagnosed in 14 patients. In conclusion, a sonographically detected liver lesion, which is homogeneous echogenic and less than 20 mm in size, is most likely to be a hemangioma and should be further investigated, if therapeutically relevant.
authors.affiliation: Klinik mit Poliklinik für Radiologie, Universitätskliniken Mainz.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Strunk
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Jaeger
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dahm
mesh_terms: D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Häufigkeitsverteilung sonographisch festgestellter fokaler Leberveränderungen bei Patienten mit einem kolorektalen Karzinom.