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What Does The CT Scan Report Indicate?
Question: In the ER, I have been to 3 times, they have done a CT scan on my abdomen because I have been dealing with severe pain. They did not give me any answers except for the following FINDINGS...several hepatic calcified granuolomas appear unchanged. 5.5 mm hypodensity in the dome of the liver appears unchanged. Focal fatty infiltration is noted adjacent to the falciform ligament. Hypodensity lesion on the left lobe. I am a 37 year old woman with a young son and I am terrified about this. The ER just shoved me out the door with this report. Could someone help me understand this?
Brief Answer:
Not significant unless based by symptoms
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query and report.I will answer your query in the last as more important to know is the cause of your visit to ER thrice.
Very sorry to know that you were shoved out of ER with the report.
Well, the most important part of your visit to the ER was pain in abdomen and that remains to be seen.
May I please know the following:
What were your symptoms for which you had to visit ER thrice?
What are the other investigations done and their reports.
How are you now, at the present?
It is but possible that the symptoms do not match with the report of the CT scan.
In a simplified meaning:
the granuloma is a localized nodular inflammation found in tissues, it's essentially built up scar tissue and a hepatic granuloma is local inflammation in the liver.
A granuloma that's ''calcified'' contains calcium deposits and calcification takes place gradually and indicates that the granulomas have been there for a significant amount of time.
Calcification also occurs in those lesions which may not be clinically significant.
That the active phase has gone by and the active lesions are not present
So unless there are associated clinical findings which can be clinically associated with the CT findings, these lesions may not have must significant including the
other findings of focal fatty infiltration and hypodense lesions.
So do not have a small heart.
Consult your Family Doctor and if he too can not help, get the final opinion of a Gastroenterologist.
I hope this answer helps you.Please feel free to ask for further relevant queries if you need to or if you feel that there is a gap of communication.
Not significant unless based by symptoms
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query and report.I will answer your query in the last as more important to know is the cause of your visit to ER thrice.
Very sorry to know that you were shoved out of ER with the report.
Well, the most important part of your visit to the ER was pain in abdomen and that remains to be seen.
May I please know the following:
What were your symptoms for which you had to visit ER thrice?
What are the other investigations done and their reports.
How are you now, at the present?
It is but possible that the symptoms do not match with the report of the CT scan.
In a simplified meaning:
the granuloma is a localized nodular inflammation found in tissues, it's essentially built up scar tissue and a hepatic granuloma is local inflammation in the liver.
A granuloma that's ''calcified'' contains calcium deposits and calcification takes place gradually and indicates that the granulomas have been there for a significant amount of time.
Calcification also occurs in those lesions which may not be clinically significant.
That the active phase has gone by and the active lesions are not present
So unless there are associated clinical findings which can be clinically associated with the CT findings, these lesions may not have must significant including the
other findings of focal fatty infiltration and hypodense lesions.
So do not have a small heart.
Consult your Family Doctor and if he too can not help, get the final opinion of a Gastroenterologist.
I hope this answer helps you.Please feel free to ask for further relevant queries if you need to or if you feel that there is a gap of communication.
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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