Medical Sonography

Biography

Biography: Musarrat Hasan

Abstract

Liver focal masses may be seen in variety of clinical settings ranging from incidental findings to symptomatic patients or as apart of routine targeted scanning to look for hepatic tumor. Haemangioma, simple cyst Focal Nodular Hyperplasia are quite often seen. Hepatocellular Ca, and metastasis are also not rare to see. In south East Asia and specially in Indo-Pak we encounter many varieties of Amoebic and pyogenic Abscess along with a vast variety of Hydatid cyst and ascaris.  The role of ultrasound in detecting such masses with state of art equipment has reach new heights and one can easily   differentiate one mass from another. There are few masses which overlap in sonographic appearance and need further evaluation with Color Doppler to establish the diagnosis.

 To determine the nature of mass we follow certain guidelines as to weather the mass is cystic, solid, complex, predominantly cystic, predominantly solid, hypo echoic, echogenic, heterogeneous, thick and thin wall, halo or without halo, single, multiple and whether it is smooth or irregular in outer contour. My talk will discuss in depth all the parameters with special reference to tropical diseases.