Alcoholic hepatitis masquerading as tumor infiltration: Reversibility after abstinence
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Adam B. Gluskin; Jeffrey M. Dueker; Mohamed El Hag; Kurian J. Puthenpurayil; Ramon Bataller
- Source
- Clinical Case Reports, Vol 7, Iss 11, Pp 2174-2176 (2019)
- Subject
- alcoholic hepatitis
geographic fatty infiltration
hepatitis
liver biopsy
Medicine
Medicine (General)
R5-920
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2050-0904
Abstract A subset of patients with alcoholic hepatitis present with atypical imaging resembling hepatic tumor infiltration. Our case involves a patient who was initially thought to have multiple large hepatic metastases, ultimately found to have alcoholic hepatitis. It is essential to ask about alcohol use when clinical suspicion is high.