Table 2: Summary of study findings.
Age, gender, past medical history | Reason for exam | Lesion diagnosis | Confirmation | Length of follow up | Utility score | |
Rev 1 | Rev 2 | |||||
4-month-old boy, no past medical history | Large liver lesion on CT for abdominal distension | Hepatoblastoma | Biopsy | 30 months | 1 | 1 |
10-month-old boy with hydronephrosis | Incidental liver lesion on renal ultrasound | Hemangioma | None | 24 months | 1 | 1 |
2-year-old boy, no past medical history | Liver lesion in ultrasound for abdominal pain/distension | Hepatoblastoma | Biopsy | 1 | 1 | |
2-year-old boy with history of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis | Liver lesions in ultrasound for abnormal liver enzymes | Microabscesses | Autopsy: ABV/CMV abscesses | 1 | 3 | |
2-year-old boy, no past medical history | Large right upper quadrant mass on ultrasound for vomiting and abdominal pain | Hepatoblastoma | Biopsy | 1 | 1 | |
4-year-old girl, history of Alagille syndrome | Routine hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance | Regenerative nodules | Stable for 4 years | 24 months | 3 | 2 |
6-year-old boy with history of neuroblastoma | Liver lesion in CT | Focal Nodular Hyperplasia (FNH) | Stable for 3 years | 18 months | 2 | 3 |
7-year-old boy with history of hypospadias | Incidental liver lesion on renal ultrasound | FNH/Adenoma | 2 | 3 | ||
8-year-old boy, history of chronic granulomatous disease | New liver mass on ultrasound | Subcapsular abscess | Culture grew aspergillosis | Resolved at 1 month follow up CT | 1 | 2 |
8-year-old boy, history of fanconi anemia | MSSA basteremia, liver lesion on CT | FNH | 3 | 2 | ||
9-year-old boy, history of liver cirrhosis due to cystic fibrosis | Liver lesions on recent CT of thechest | Mixed micro- and macronodular cirrhosis with regenerative nodules | Biopsy of the lesion showed fibrosis | 24 months | 1 | 2 |
9-year-old girl with history of medulloblastoma | Liver lesions seen in surveillance CT | FNH | 36 months | 3 | 3 | |
10-year-old girl with history of juvenile granulosa cell tumor | Liver lesion on surveillance CT | Fatty infiltration | No | 3 | 3 | |
14-year-old girl, no past medical history | Liver lesion seen in CT for suspected appendicitis | Hemangioma | No | 1 | 1 | |
14-year-old girl with history of leukemia, post total body radiation | Liver lesions seen on spine MRI | FNH | 18 months | 2 | 3 | |
14-year-old boy with history of cystic fibrosis | Liver lesion seen in ultrasound | Mixed micro- and macronodular cirrhosis and regenerative nodules | Stable at follow up | 40 months | 1 | 2 |
15-year-old boy, history of splenomegaly | Incidental liver lesions on MRI for splenomegaly | FNH | FNH, stable at follow up | 32 months | 2 | 2 |
16-year-old boy with history of neuroblastoma | Surveillance CT scan with liver lesion | FNH-like lesion | No imaging follow up | 2 | 2 | |
16-year-old male, no past medical history | Incidental liver lesion on CT for abdominal pain | FNH | FNH (never biopsied) | 3 | 3 | |
17-year-old male, post liver transplant for autoimmune hepatitis | Liver lesions on ultrasound for abnormal liver enzymes | Abscess | Biopsy: multiple discrete areas of COAGULATIVE NECROSIS with adjacent reactive changes of chronic inflammation and portal fibrosis |
1 | 1 | |
18-year-old male with sickle cell disease | Liver lesion on CT | FNH | No imaging follow up | 3 | 2 | |
19-year-old male with history of neuroblastoma | Liver lesion on CT | FNH | No imaging follow up | 3 | 3 |