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  • I've actually never heard of calcification of the liver... calcification of the kidneys is pretty common.
  • 1) "Fetal hepatic calcification can arise from peritoneal, ischemic, infectious, neoplastic, and idiopathic causes." Source: http://www.koreamed.org/SearchBasic.php?RID=285918&DT=1 2) "Diffuse hepatic calcification after ischemic liver injury in a patient with chronic renal failure." Source: http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/citation/161/1/75 3) "Diffuse hepatic calcification is a rare condition. Previous reports have described patients with end-stage renal disease who developed diffuse hepatic calcification after ischemic hepatitis caused by shock. We herein present a similar case. A 41-year-old man on chronic hemodialysis developed ischemic hepatitis due to shock induced by ventricular tachycardia, followed by progressive hepatic failure." Source: http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Kinjo,M 4) "Hepatic calcification can be seen with various infectious and neoplastic conditions. We report a 32-year- old man who developed massive calcification in the right lobe of liver following recovery from dengue virus-associated fulminant liver failure." Source: http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Chaudhary,D
  • Focal hepatic calcifications are actually quite a common incidental finding on ultrasound and CT scans of the liver. They are usually of no clinical relevance and thought to be due to past subclinical infections or other insults to the liver. Of course, you can occasionally find calcifications in liver tumors and other focal lesions; in these cases, however, there are other associated findings (i.e. you will see the mass lesion itself). If all you see is a calcification, it is probably not something to worry about.

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