title: Morphologic changes of the liver following chemotherapy for metastatic breast carcinoma: CT findings.
abstract: Thirty patients with metastatic breast carcinoma to the liver underwent systemic chemotherapy. Twenty-four of these patients also received hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy, three in conjunction with hepatic artery embolization. The morphologic changes of the liver believed to be due to chemotoxic effect of treatment occurred in 27 patients, and were evaluated by serial computed tomography (CT) examinations. These included fatty changes in seven patients, severe cirrhotic changes in four, localized atrophy with regional contour changes in three, and areas of low density in the regions of previously treated metastases in 13. The CT features of cirrhosis included density changes along with nodular irregularity of the hepatic borders with marked decrease in liver size and development of ascites.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shirkhoda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baird
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000187:drug effects / Q000473:pathology; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed