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Journal of Medical Ultrasonics

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1997 - Vol.24

Vol.24 No.06

Original Article(原著)

(0887 - 0893)

アルコール性肝硬変に認められた粗大再生結節の1例

A Case of Large Regenerative Nodule in Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis

平田 真美1, 西村 庸夫1, 兵藤 真1, 平田 康隆1, 井内 英人2, 大久保 啓二2

Mami HIRATA1, Nobuo NISHIMURA1, Shin HYODO1, Yasutaka HIRATA1, Hideto IUCHI2, Keiji OKUBO2

1松山城東病院, 2愛媛大学第3内科

1Matsuyama Jyoto Hospital, 2Thrd Department of Internal Medicine, Ehime University School of Medicine

キーワード : Alcoholic liver cirrhosis, Color Doppler ultrasonography Regenerative nodule

Nodular lesions consisting of hyperplasia in liver cirrhosis are classified roughly into adenomatous hyperplasia and regenerating nodules. Adenomatous hyperplasia is recognized as a precancerous change toward hepatocellular carcinoma, while the canceraous process is discarded in regenerating nodules. Here we report a case of alcoholic cirrhosis in which the imaged protruding portion of the caudate lobe had the appearance of a node, and which was histologically diagnosed as a macro-regenerating nodule. The various diagnostic imaging techniques that we used in the attempt to differentiate this lesion from adenomatous hyperplasia and hepatocellular carcinoma showed a greater abundance of blood vessels from the hepatic artery and portal vein in the node than in the surrounding liver parenchyma. The blood-flow pattern differed from that of adenomatous hyperplasia or hepatocellular carcinoma, and dilatation of existing blood vessels was the most evident imaged finding. While the margin of the liver was established histologically as cirrhosis, regeneration appeared to be accelerated in the nodes. These histologic findings led us to suspect that the macro-regenerating nodule was caused by imbalance in local blood distribution. Plain ultrasonic imaging was sufficient to distinguish between the histologic structure of the margin of the liver and that of the nodes, while color Doppler ultrasonic imaging could more objectively assess differences in blood distribution.