Gluskin AB, Dueker JM, El Hag M, Puthenpurayil KJ, Bataller R. Alcoholic hepatitis masquerading as tumor infiltration: Reversibility after abstinence.
Clin Case Rep 2019;
7:2174-2176. [PMID:
31788273 PMCID:
PMC6878061 DOI:
10.1002/ccr3.2448]
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Abstract
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.
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