Open AccessAlcoholic hepatitis masquerading as tumor infiltration: Reversibility after abstinence
Author(s) -
Gluskin Adam B.,
Dueker Jeffrey M.,
El Hag Mohamed,
Puthenpurayil Kurian J.,
Bataller Ramon
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.2448
Subject(s) - medicine , abstinence , infiltration (hvac) , alcoholic hepatitis , gastroenterology , intensive care medicine , pathology , alcoholic liver disease , cirrhosis , psychiatry , physics , thermodynamics
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.