‘Hepato-diaphragmatic fat interposition’ and ‘increased right hemi-diaphragmatic thickness’: new imaging signs for early diagnosis of hepatic cirrhosis on routine CT abdomen
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Cirrhosis of liver is often a silent disease and need early diagnosis for effective treatment strategy. The present article aims to describe new imaging signs for early diagnosis of cirrhosis on routine CT. These are ‘hepato-diaphragmatic fat interposition’ (HDFI) and ‘increased right hemi-diaphragmatic thickness’ (increased r-DT sign). This was a retrospective study based on the presence or absence of cirrhosis of liver (n = 100). ‘HDFI sign’ was labeled as positive if F is more than 50% of D; where F is the medio-lateral extent of the intra-abdominal fat along the postero-medial margin of liver and D is the distance from the lateral vertebral margin to the medial margin of the outer-most rib in the same axial image. Increased ‘r-DT sign’ is labeled when the dimension on right side exceeds left side by at least 0.2 cm. Pearson χ2 was performed to calculate the p value. A p value of < 0.05 was considered to indicate a significant difference. There was a significant difference between cirrhotic and normal group, The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and the negative predictive value of HDFI sign was found to be 94%, 62%, 71.21% and 91.17%, while that of increased r-DT sign was found to be 96%,52%, 66.66% and 92.85%. The area under the ROC curve for the HDFI sign was found to be 0.78 as compared to 0.74 for the increased r-DT sign. Both these new signs should be used as additional imaging signs for early diagnosis of cirrhosis.
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