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contrast-enhanced CT of the abdomen showing the presence of diffuse hypodense plaques more marked on the right hepatic lobe consistent with massive hepatic infraction
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We completed paraclinical investigations by a thoraco-abdominopelvic CT (Figure 1), it objectified the absence of spontaneous hemorrhagic hyperdensity and the existence of diffuse hypodense plaques, poorly limited, not enhanced after injection, interesting all hepatic segments, more marked on the right hepatic lobe.
contrast-enhanced CT of the abdomen showed the damaged areas were persisted on the 15th days after admission
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Within 6 days, the patient has improved clinically, liver function tests began to downtrend by postoperative day 5, the biological results were normalized within 11 days, the damaged hepatic areas stayed stable for 15 days as shown by a control CT scan (Figure 2).