ReviewKorean journal of radiology
Hepatic Lesions that Mimic Metastasis on Radiological Imaging during Chemotherapy for Gastrointestinal Malignancy: Recent Updates.
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- The Role of Systemic Therapy in Resectable Colorectal Liver Metastases: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.The oncologist · 2022Pooled it
- AI-assisted compressed sensing and gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI for evaluating colorectal liver metastases in complex hepatic backgrounds: a prospective 5T MRI study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- MRI findings of newly present benign focal hepatic observations following chemotherapy: distinct features in early- and late-term follow-up.European radiology · 2025Article
- Chemotherapy-induced focal liver injury mimicking colorectal liver metastasis: a case description.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Differentiating Liver Metastases from Primary Liver Cancer: A Retrospective Study of Imaging and Pathological Features in Patients with Histopathological Confirmation.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in colonic eosinophilic abscess complicated with eosinophilic vasculitis: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Preoperative imaging of colorectal liver metastases: what the radiologist and the multidisciplinary team need to know.The British journal of radiology · 2024Review
- [A case of hypereosinophilic syndrome accompanied by hepatic space-occupying lesions].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2024Article
- A surgical resection of hepatic granuloma mimicking intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: a case report.International cancer conference journal · 2023Article
- Chemotherapy-Induced Liver Injury in Patients with Colorectal Liver Metastases: Findings from MR Imaging.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- A New SteatoScore in the Evaluation of Non-Alcoholic Liver Disease in Oncologic Patients.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Imaging of the chemotherapy-induced hepatic damage: Yellow liver, blue liver, and pseudocirrhosis.World journal of gastroenterology · 2021Article
- Focal eosinophilic infiltration of the liver, benign or malignant?Clinical case reports · 2021Article
- FOLFOX and capecitabine-induced hepatic granuloma mimicking metastasis in a rectal cancer patient.BMJ case reports · 2020Article
- Diagnostic value/performance of radiological liver imaging during chemoterapy for gastrointestinal malignancy: a critical review.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2019Review
- Esophagogastric varices were diagnosed in a non-cirrhotic liver case during long-term follow-up after oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2018Article
- Hepatic Eosinophilic Abscess Associated with Sigmoid Colon Cancer.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2018Article
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Abstract
During chemotherapy in patients with gastrointestinal malignancy, the hepatic lesions may occur as chemotherapy-induced lesions or tumor-associated lesions, with exceptions for infectious conditions and other incidentalomas. Focal hepatic lesions arising from chemotherapy-induced hepatopathies (such as chemotherapy-induced sinusoidal injury and steatosis) and tumor-associated eosinophilic abscess should be considered a mimicker of metastasis in patients with gastrointestinal malignancy. Accumulating evidence suggests that chemotherapy for gastrointestinal malignancy in the liver has roles in both the therapeutic effects for hepatic metastasis and injury to the non-tumor bearing hepatic parenchyma. In this article, we reviewed the updated concept of chemotherapy-induced hepatopathies and tumor-associated eosinophilic abscess in the liver, focusing on the pathological and radiological findings. Awareness of the causative chemo-agent, pathophysiology, and characteristic imaging findings of these mimickers is critical for accurate diagnosis and avoidance of unnecessary exposure of the patient to invasive tissue-based diagnosis and operations.
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