• CLINICAL RESEARCH • Imaging diagnosis of 12 patients with hepatic tuberculosis

AIM: To assess CT, MR manifestations and their diagnostic value in hepatic tuberculosis. METHODS: CT findings in 12 cases and MR findings in 4 cases of hepatic tuberculosis proved by surgery or biopsy were retrospectively analyzed. RESULTS: (1) CT findings: One case of serohepatic type of hepatic tuberculosis had multiple-nodular lesions in the subcapsule of liver. Parenchymal type was found in 10 cases, including multiple, miliary, micronodular and low-density lesions with miliary calcifications in 2 cases; singular, low-density mass with multiple flecked calcifications in 3 cases; multiple cystic lesions in 1 case; multiple micronodular and low-density lesions fusing into multiloculated cystic mass or “cluser ” sign in 3 cases; and singular, macronodular an