What is confluent fibrosis?

[Marydel63]

What does the term Confluent fibrosis mean? And where can I find more info? Thanks

[AyrshireK]

Looks to be a technical term to describe fibrosis and how it appears in cirrhotic liver. If you type it into your search bar you'll get various results.

One page I found is :- doctorabel.us/mri-of-liver/...

[Marydel63 in reply to AyrshireK]

Thank you

[Dldtx]

Confluent hepatic fibrosis is categorized as LR1 or LR2 in the LI-RADS classification system. If findings are indeterminate between fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, it should be graded LR3 or LR4

radiopaedia.org/articles/co...

Good luck

[Marydel63 in reply to Dldtx]

Prior to this scan my other lesions were LR3-4 but on my second MRI stated it was LR3. I see the doc on the 27th to review the newest MRI . So does confluent fibrosis turn into HCC?

[Dldtx]

Here is some more reading for you ajronline.org/doi/pdfplus/1...

I believe there are mostly mistaken as malignant And are just mass , in all prior testing it has been oh my look at this then next time where did it go out of 6 I have one that stays still and appears regularly. It is growing but very slow.