Focal fatty liver in a heifer: utility of ultrasonography in diagnosis.
A 30-month-old Holstein heifer presented with a history of decreased appetite and respiratory signs. Sonographic examination of the liver incidentally revealed an area of increased echogenicity between the portal vein and the gallbladder. The lesion was nonspherical and had no mass effect or displacement of the adjacent vessels. Its boundaries, to the liver, were geographic. The liver specimen was histologically compatible with a diagnosis of focal fatty liver change (FFLC). The sonographic features of focal fatty infiltration of the liver are characteristic. Recognition of the ultrasonographic data is important to differentiate FFLC from other lesions.
Mohamed
Tharwat
T
Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, Japan.
Oikawa
Shin
S
Kurosawa
Takashi
T
Takehana
Kazushige
K
Hosaka
Yoshinao
Y
Okada
Hiroyuki
H
Koiwa
Masateru
M
Sato
Hiroshi
H
D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D005234:Fatty Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D014463:Ultrasonography