STEATOHEPATOSIS: VARIABILITY AND VISUALIZATION BY USING NON-INVASIVE METHODS, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING FEATURES OF IT AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS, CLINICAL CASES

Abstract

Hepatic steatosis/steatohepatosis is a common liver change that has not been paid enough attention in routine radiology practice for a long time. Since 2000, the medical community has increasingly recognized the hepatic steatosis as a clinical significant sign in terms of progression of certain diseases and conditions, such as alcoholic (ALD) and non-alcoholic (NAFLD) fatty liver disease. Due to reversibility of liver changes at certain stages, early diagnostics of hepatic steatosis leads to a more favorable prognostic outcome, which means that there is a clinical necessity in developing non-invasive detecting methods. In this article, we discussed the manifestations of hepatic steatosis on USI, MRI and CT equipment by reviewing the articles in PubMed, elibrary, an electronic medical databases, analyzing in detail the features of differential diagnosis and patterns of manifestations of steatosis in computed tomography based on the cases from our clinical practice.