Alcoholic hepatitis masquerading as tumor infiltration: Reversibility after abstinence

Abstract

Abstract A subset of patients with alcoholic hepatitis present with atypical imaging resembling hepatic tumor infiltration. Our case involves a patient who was initially thought to have multiple large hepatic metastases, ultimately found to have alcoholic hepatitis. It is essential to ask about alcohol use when clinical suspicion is high.

Keywords

• alcoholic hepatitis
• geographic fatty infiltration
• hepatitis
• liver biopsy