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Image of the Month—Quiz Case
Raul Jiménez, MD;
Adolfo Beguiristain, MD, PhD;
Inmaculada Ruiz-Montesinos, MD;
Francisco Villar, MD;
Miguel A. Medrano, MD;
Francisco Garnateo, MD;
Manuel Vaquero, MD;
Miguel Echenique Elizondo, MD, PhD
Arch Surg. 2008;143(8):805.
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INTRODUCTION
A 34-year-old woman, who was using contraceptive therapy and had no previous severe illness recorded, had a hypodense lesion on segment 6 of the liver during a routine ultrasonography examination. Physical examination results were unremarkable. Blood and liver function test results and  -fetoprotein, carcinoembryonic antigen, and cancer antigen 19-9 levels were within normal limits. Viral hepatitis serologic test results and antimitochondrial antibody levels were unavailable. A chest radiograph and whole-body bone scan showed no evidence of metastases. A computed tomography–guided needle core biopsy revealed a chronic inflammatory infiltrate. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a hyperintense T2 signaling nodular lesion and arterial phase enhancement with gadolinium injection (Figure 1). The hepatic lesion was surgically resected. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful. Grossly, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
What Is the Diagnosis?
Author Affiliations: Departments of Surgery (Drs Jiménez, Beguiristain, Ruiz-Montesinos, Villar, Medrano, and Garnateo) and Pathology (Dr Vaquero), Donostia Hospital, and Department of Surgery, Basque Country University School of Medicine (Dr Echenique Elizondo), San Sebastián, Spain.
 Deceased.
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