Prevalencia de lesiones focales hepáticas diagnosticadas por tomografía, en pacientes del departamento de imagenología, Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga, Cuenca. Enero-Diciembre 2013

Abstract

Objective. To determine the prevalence of Focal Liver Lesions diagnosed through Tomography on patients from José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital; during the period of January- December 2013.

Methodology. A retrospective descriptive study was performed whose sample was represented by the medical records of patients that attended the Imaging service of “José Carrasco Arteaga" Hospital for an Abdominal CT study, conducted during January - December 2013. The sample size was 1240 patients, this information was tabulated and analyzed, based on the variables age, sex and tomographic findings of different focal liver lesions.

Results. According to radiology reports, data was analyzed and the following results were obtained: 726 patients (58.5 %) presented Focal Liver Lesions, of these 50.6 % were female. The average age was of > 70 years. The benign Focal Liver Lesion most prevalent was the liver cyst by 47%; and as for malignant lesions was liver metastasis with 18.9%. The location of the injury occurred mostly in the right lobe.

Conclusions. With this study could determine the prevalence of Focal Liver Lesions diagnosed with Computed Tomography.