Specificity of unenhanced CT for non-invasive diagnosis of hepatic steatosis: implications for the investigation of the natural history of incidental steatosis

Perry J. Pickhardt,Seong Ho Park,Luke Hahn,Sung-Gyu Lee,Kyongtae T. Bae,Eun Sil Yu

Specificity of unenhanced CT for non-invasive diagnosis of hepatic steatosis: implications for the investigation of the natural history of incidental steatosis

2012

Perry J. Pickhardt
Seong Ho Park
Luke Hahn
Sung-Gyu Lee
Kyongtae T. Bae
Eun Sil Yu

Objectives To determine a highly specific liver attenuation threshold at unenhanced CT for biopsy-proven moderate to severe hepatic steatosis (≥30% at histology).

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Attenuation
Steatosis
Radiology
Computed tomography
Pathology
Natural history
Medicine
Interventional radiology
Gastroenterology
non invasive
Neuroradiology
Internal medicine
moderate to severe

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