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Focal Enhanced Areas of the Liver on Computed Tomography in a Patient with Superior Vena Cava Obstruction

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We present a patient with superior vena cava (SVC) obstruction in whom two areas of increased hepatic enhancement within the left lobe were seen on abdominal computed tomography (CT). The significance of this case is that abnormal enhancements of the liver on abdominal CT in the regions described should be suggestive of an SVC obstruction on this basis alone.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Imakiire General Hospital, 4-16 Shimotatsuo, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima 8920852, Japan, JP

    Yasutaka Baba, Kouichi Ohkubo, Kenji Hamada & Hirofumi Hokotate

  2. Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890, Japan, JP

    Masayuki Nakajo

  3. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Imakiire General Hospital, 4-16 Shimotatsuo, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima 8920852, Japan, JP

    Hidenori Nakai

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Baba, Y., Ohkubo, K., Nakai, H. et al. Focal Enhanced Areas of the Liver on Computed Tomography in a Patient with Superior Vena Cava Obstruction. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 22, 69–70 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002709900332

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