Pseudolipoma of the Glisson capsule
Dr Matt A. Morgan ◉ et al.
Pseudolipoma of the Glisson capsule is an uncommon developmental anomaly in which a piece of colonic epiploic fat becomes ectopically located within the liver capsule.
Radiographic features
CT
- well-circumscribed fat attenuation (-20 to -70 HU) nodule at the liver surface
MRI
- well-circumscribed nodule at the liver surface that follows fat signal intensity on all sequences and suppresses with fat saturation
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Hepatobiliary pathology
- depositional disorders
- infection and inflammation
- liver abscess
- hepatic hydatid infection
- cirrhosis
- hepatitis
- cholecystitis
- cholangitis
- malignancy
- liver and intrahepatic bile duct tumors
- benign epithelial tumors
- hepatocellular hyperplasia
- hepatocellular adenoma
- hepatic/biliary cysts
- benign nonepithelial tumors
- primary malignant epithelial tumors
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- hepatocellular carcinoma variants
- cholangiocarcinoma
- biliary cystadenocarcinoma
- combined hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma
- hepatoblastoma
- undifferentiated carcinoma
- primary malignant nonepithelial tumors
- hematopoietic and lymphoid tumors
- primary hepatic lymphoma
- hepatic myeloid sarcoma (hepatic chloroma)
- secondary tumors
- miscellaneous
- adrenal rest tumors
- hepatic carcinosarcoma
- hepatic fibroma
- hepatic Kaposi sarcoma
- hepatic lipoma
- hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma
- hepatic myxoma
- hepatic rhabdoid tumor
- hepatic solitary fibrous tumor
- hepatic teratoma
- hepatic yolk sac tumor
- inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (inflammatory pseudotumor)
- nodular regenerative hyperplasia
- pancreatic rest tumors
- primary hepatic carcinoid
- benign epithelial tumors
- extrahepatic bile duct tumors
- extrahepatic bile duct cholangiocarcinoma
- hilar cholangiocarcinoma (Klatskin tumor)
- extrahepatic bile duct cholangiocarcinoma
- liver and intrahepatic bile duct tumors
- metabolic
- trauma
- vascular
- portal venous gas
- portal hypertension
- portal vein thrombosis
- arterioportal shunts
- hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome)
- Budd-Chiari syndrome
- passive hepatic congestion
- hepatic veno-occlusive disease
- hepatic infarction
- peliosis hepatis
- hepatic venous malformations (hemangiomas)
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