Diffuse Liver Diseases: Role of imaging

Publication date: Available online 20 November 2017
Source:Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
Author(s): Adele Taibbi, Dario Picone, Massimo Midiri, Ludovico La Grutta, Tommaso Vincenzo Bartolotta
Nowadays the most common imaging techniques allow to study focal liver lesions with high diagnostic accuracy but a relatively recent emerging field of interest is represented by diffuse liver disease. They include a variegated series of storage and metabolic pathologies (i.e. iron overload disorders and steatosis) requiring a precise diagnosis not always possible at imaging due to the overlapping of findings at conventional ultrasound, CT or MR studies.In recent years several imaging tecniques and specific softwares have been developed, especially for ultrasound and MR imaging, in order to identify different parameters useful in the noninvasive recognition and follow-up of these diffusely processes diffusely involving the liver.The aim of this review is to describe the most common and useful imaging findings of the most common and uncommon diffuse liver diseases illustrating the newest imaging technologies and developments at our disposal with corresponding advantages, limitations and pitfalls.



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