Liver Lesion

[Gaspereaux]

My recent US and CT both showed a 10 cm lesion on the left upper quadrant. Is this normal? Otherwise, only fatigue.

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[AyrshireK]

Are there plans for more investigations to identify what this lesion is? There are many kinds of lumps and bumps that can occur in a liver - the majority of them totally benign although you'd definitely want to rule out the other 'scaries'. 10cm is pretty big.

Have you had an AFP (Alpha feto protein) blood test done - it's a tumour marker.

Hope all turns out alright.

* my hubby has cirrhosis and also has numerous lumps and bumps in the form of cysts and a few haemangioma. Twice he's been sent for a follow up MRI scan after his 6 monthly ultrasound has showed up new lesions only for them (thankfully) to turn out just to be extra dense areas of cirrhotic tissue.

Katie

[Gaspereaux in reply to AyrshireK]

Oh my goodness, i am so embarrassed! It was supposed to say 1.0 cm not ten!!!!! But thank you for your prompt reply. Please forgive me!!!!

[AyrshireK in reply to Gaspereaux]

Regardless of size you still want to find out what it is but 1 is certainly better than 10.

[mozlaw]

mine was 4c and that was cancerous but only needed a dose sabrt (i received radiation 5 times about 20 mins each)no chemo. in my 4th year ok .Always best to get things early.maybe need a biopsy .ask.

[SkinNBones]

i have a 1 cm lesion too. Mine has been stable and they believe its a hemangioma. My concern is that now every time a new test is done, its like thats the big news - the lesion - whereas i want to know what ELSE they see about my liver.

On my recent ct they could not tell what it was but on the uktrasound they believe it to be a hemangioma maybe because it was hypo echoic (tho on ct scan i believe was hyperechoic)!

Does your uktrasouhd speculate on what they think it might be? Or at least describe if its more or less dense (echo info like hypoechoic) than surrounding tissue. ?

When first detected, they tried to convince me was born with it but that was nonsense since first appeared after cant remember how many months or msybe longer of upper right quandrant pain.