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 tumours
- benign epithelial tumours
-
hepatocellular hyperplasia
- hepatic regenerative nodule
- focal nodular hyperplasia
- hepatocellular adenoma
- hepatic/biliary cysts
-
hepatocellular hyperplasia
- benign nonepithelial tumours
- primary malignant epithelial tumours
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- hepatocellular carcinoma variants
- cholangiocarcinoma
- biliary cystadenocarcinoma
- combined hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma
- hepatoblastoma
- undifferentiated carcinoma
- primary malignant nonepithelial tumours
- hematopoeietic and lymphoid tumours
- primary hepatic lymphoma
- hepatic myeloid sarcoma (hepatic chloroma)
- secondary tumours
- miscellaneous
- adrenal rest tumours
- hepatic carcinosarcoma
- hepatic fibroma
- hepatic Kaposi sarcoma
- hepatic lipoma
- hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma
- hepatic myxoma
- hepatic rhabdoid tumour
- hepatic solitary fibrous tumour
- hepatic teratoma
- hepatic yolk sac tumour
- inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (inflammatory pseudotumor)
- nodular regenerative hyperplasia
- pancreatic rest tumours
- primary hepatic carcinoid
- benign epithelial tumours
- extrahepatic bile duct tumours
- liver and intrahepatic bile duct tumours
- metabolic
- trauma
- vascular
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