The following mnemonics can be used as reminders of the causes of hepatic capsular retraction:
- CT CHIEF
- FILTH E
- FITCH
Mnemonics
CT CHIEF
- C: cholangiocarcinoma (intrahepatic)
- T: treated hepatic metastasis or hepatocellular carcinoma
- C: cirrhosis with confluent hepatic fibrosis
- H: hemangioma (especially sclerosed hepatic hemangioma)
- I: inflammatory pseudotumor, hepatic
- E: epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
- F: fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma
FILTH E
- F: fibrosis in confluent hepatic fibrosis
- I: intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
- L: lamellar as in fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma
- T: treated metastasis
- H: hepatocellular carcinoma (uncommon manifestation)
- E: epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
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