CT hepatic and splenic appearances with sarcoidosis

Hepatic and Splenic Sarcoidosis Evaluated by Multiple Imaging Modalities.

“…Clinically, however, less than 20% of patients with sarcoidosis have hepatosplenomegaly and dysfunction of the liver is found in only 4%of patients (1). In most cases liver and spleen involvement was detected casually by multi-imaging (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)), the most frequent described finding is diffuse parenchymal heterogeneity. It is likely that inhomogeneity on abdominal CT is the result of poor imaging resolution of small lesions, which are histologically less than 2 mmin diameter ( 1 3).…”

Sonographically Guided Biopsy and Sonographic Monitoring in the Diagnosis and Follow-up of 2 Cases of Sarcoidosis With Hepatic Nodules and Inconclusive Thoracic Findings

“…In a study comparing sonography and MRI in patients with biopsy-proved hepatic sarcoidosis, sonography showed hypoechoic nodules in the liver in 2 of 17 cases, and MRI showed nodules in 6 of 10 cases. 5 Finally, in 2 case reports, CT 6 and MRI 8 were able to show a multinodular pattern in the liver and spleen, whereas sonography was not.…”

“…Conversely, sonography is not considered useful in this aim. [4][5][6][7][8][9] We report 2 cases of sarcoidosis at clinical onset in…”

Hepatic sarcoidosis associated with chronic hepatitis C

“…Therefore, nodular involvement detectable by CT scan is relatively rare. [15][16][17][18] It has been reported that abnormal liver findings on CT, including multiple low-density lesions in one patient, were observed in 8 of 49 patients with sarcoidosis. 19 Hepatic nodules were detected by CT in 5% of the series of patients with sarcoidosis reported by Warshauer and coworkers.…”