title: [Hepatic pseudolesion caused by puncture].
abstract: We report the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of a hepatic pseudolesion due to percutaneous liver biopsy in a 30-year-old female patient with known chronic hepatitis C and renal insufficiency. In the course of transplant preparation, an abdominal spiral-CT examination pre and post i.v.-contrast injection as well as an angiography with CT-hepaticography and CT-portography were performed. In these examinations a 1 cm, hepatocellular-carcinoma mimicking liver lesion was found; it was hypodense in the CT-portography and showed a marked enhancement in the CT-hepaticography. This "pseudolesion", which was supposed to be due to the liver biopsy, resolved spontaneously.
authors.affiliation: Radiologische Universitätsklinik, Bonn.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Strunk
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Textor
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Leifeld
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000792:Angiography; D016477:Artifacts; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006528:Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D019698:Hepatitis C, Chronic / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000293:injuries* / Q000473:pathology; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed