What does this liver triphasic CT report indicate?
Patient: my father(50) is suffering from liver cancer (HCC) since 5 months. multicentric lesion are present.chemoembolisation was done. triphasic CT report-the CT revels a large mass exophytically arising from the caudate lobe which shows subtile arterial enhancement but does not show any rapid wash out pattern.the other lesions in the liver does not show any arterial enhancement. thrombus in the main portal vein with portosynthemic collaterals are seen. give me advice as early as possible Doctor: Hello and thanks you for your query. I am Dr. Rommstein and I will try to help you as much as I can with my answer.unfortunately,it looks like extensive and late stage of liver cancer and I am afraid that surgical resection is not possible. What can help is chemotherapy and transarterial chemo embolization. This may reduce tumor size and make possible surgery in future.I hope I have answered you query. If you have any further questions you can contact us.Kindly regards. Wish you a good health.