Calcified Liver Metastases

Abstract

CALCIFICATION in the right upper quadrant may lie in the kidney, adrenal gland, gall bladder, liver or retroperitoneal area. Kidney tumors and tuberculosis of the kidney do show calcification. By means of positioning or, if necessary, pyelography, one can determine whether calcification lies within the kidney. Cholecystography is helpful in locating the margin of the liver, and in differentiating gallbladder calcification. Liver calcification is quite rare¹; echinococcus disease shows ringlike calcification in the cyst walls; in tuberculosis the calcification is miliary; calcification in hemangiomas may be streaky² or may resemble phleboliths. Calcification in metastases is referred to rarely in . . .