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    The document discusses liver size and echogenicity on ultrasound. Normally the liver is less than 15cm in length when measured at the midclavicular line and has a homogeneous texture with fine echoes. It also describes common ultrasound images of the liver including the portal vein, hepatic veins, and caudate lobe.

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    The document discusses liver size and echogenicity on ultrasound. Normally the liver is less than 15cm in length when measured at the midclavicular line and has a homogeneous texture with fine echoes. It also describes common ultrasound images of the liver including the portal vein, hepatic veins, and caudate lobe.

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    Iffah Nabilah
    The document discusses liver size and echogenicity on ultrasound. Normally the liver is less than 15cm in length when measured at the midclavicular line and has a homogeneous texture with fine echoes. It also describes common ultrasound images of the liver including the portal vein, hepatic veins, and caudate lobe.

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    SIZE AND ECHOGENICITY


    Limited FOV
    size evaluation difficult
    Liver length -- midclavicular line (MCL)
    Normal < 15 cm
    > 15.5 cm = hepatomegaly
    Reidel’s lobe
    Normal liver
    Homogeneous
    Fine level echoes

    Pancreas>Liver>Spleen>Kidney(cortex)
    2
    LPV

    TS LEFT LOBE WITH PORTAL VEIN 3


    HV: HEPATIC VEIN

    MIDDLE HV

    RT HV

    LT HV

    TS RT LOBE WITH ‘PLAYBOY’ SIGN 4


    5
    Portal vein

    TS MID LOBE WITH ‘H’ SIGN 6


    Rt Portal Vein

    Aorta

    Vertebral
    Body 7
    LS LT LATERAL LOBE 8
    LIGAMENTUM VENOSUM

    CAUDATE LOBE

    LS LT LIVER WITH CAUDATE LOBE 9


    <15cm (adult)
    S MID CLAVICULAR MEASUREMENT 10
    LS RT LOBE WITH RT KIDNEY FOR COMPARISON 11
    Discussion
    1) Compare appearance of solid mass and cystic lesion in liver.
    2) How to differentiate a liver cyst from a vessel?

    3) Discuss the images.


    a) b)

    4) Reasons absence of gallbladder. 12

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