What is the matter with liver calcification?

No matter what the disease is, everyone knows that going to the hospital for consultation and examination is to find the cause and make a diagnosis. Through this situation, everyone must know that a patient's understanding of the corresponding cause of the disease is of great help in treating the disease. Regarding the disease of liver calcification, many patients do not know much about it. Next, I will introduce what liver calcification is.

Intrahepatic calcifications are "scars" formed after inflammation of liver parenchymal cells. They are generally not a serious problem. Some patients may feel stuffy and bloated in the liver area, just like patients with intrahepatic bile duct stones. If diagnosed, no treatment is generally required. Calcification spots in the liver may be partial calcification of the intrahepatic bile duct wall. It is mostly caused by inflammation, tuberculosis, etc. It may also be caused by intrahepatic calcification foci and fibrotic scars after local necrosis of liver tissue. It is the most important differentiation from intrahepatic bile duct stones. With the popularization and development of B-ultrasound examination technology in hospitals at all levels, many healthy people are found to have strong echo masses and acoustic shadows similar to stones in the liver during physical examinations, and many people mistakenly believe that they have intrahepatic bile duct stones.

Pathological etiology

Calcification in the liver

In fact, calcification foci in the liver and fibrotic scars of local necrosis of liver tissue can present strong echo masses and acoustic shadows similar to those of stones, but generally do not cause dilatation of the hepatobiliary duct. The small bile ducts above the obstruction site are dilated, and the strong echogenic masses of the stones are distributed along the left and right hepatic ducts.

Internal calcification refers to the strong echoes or high-density images similar to stones that appear in the liver on ultrasound or CT images. It is more common in people aged 20 to 50 years old, with an equal incidence in men and women. It is usually a single calcification focus, more common in the right liver than in the left liver, and it is rare for calcification foci to appear in both sides of the liver at the same time. There are many lesions that can form intrahepatic calcifications.

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① Intrahepatic bile duct stones are the most common factor;

② Chronic inflammation or trauma in the liver;

③ Parasitic infection;

④ Calcification of benign and malignant liver tumors and intrahepatic metastatic tumors;

⑤ Congenital development: intrahepatic calcification foci are formed in the fetus in the uterus, often accompanied by congenital malformations, with a detection rate of 0.057%.

Regarding the cause of liver calcification, those who did not understand it before should now understand it after reading this content. Or it may be because there is a problem inside the liver. If you find someone around you has this situation, you must tell them to go to the hospital for treatment in time. Many diseases will recover very slowly because of delayed treatment.