Deer horn sign
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Citation:
Gupta S, Machang'a K, Gaillard F, et al. Deer horn sign. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 29 Mar 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-176523
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176523
Article created:
16 Oct 2023,
Satish Kumar Gupta
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At the time the article was created Satish Kumar Gupta had no financial relationships to ineligible companies to disclose.
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At the time the article was last revised Karen Machang'a had no financial relationships to ineligible companies to disclose.
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- bunny sign
The deer horn sign is a reliable sign and an important diagnostic clue of passive congestive hepatopathy due to heart failure on ultrasonography 1. In the deer horn sign, the head is formed by a dilated inferior cava, and the engorged hepatic veins resemble horns. It has also been described as the bunny sign, which was first described by Bartrum and Crow 2,3.
References
- 1. Hokama A, Arakaki S, Shibata D, Maeshiro T, Kinjo F, Fujita J. "Playboy Bunny" Sign of Congestive Heart Failure. West J Emerg Med. 2011;12(4):433-4. doi:10.5811/westjem.2011.2.2226 - Pubmed
- 2. Royal J. Bartrum, Harte C. Crow. Real-Time Ultrasound. (1983) ISBN: 072161552X - Google Books
- 3. Ramanathan S & Sheikh A. Playboy Bunny Sign. Abdom Radiol. 2019;44(5):1938-9. doi:10.1007/s00261-018-1877-5 - Pubmed
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