What does increasing echogenicity of the liver parenchyma mean? Fatty change: Increased echogenicity means that on a sonogram study the liver had a lighter or whiter appearance than is typical This is called fatty infiltration and can be caused by many things such as medications like cholesterol lowering drugs and many other medications
what is echogenic lesion in ovary?how serious it is?how should be . . . Depends: "echogenic" means the lesion is "bright" on u s A simple cyst is "hypoechoic" or dark on u s A cyst that has bled (hemorrhagic cyst), an endometrioma or other solid ovarian lesion can be echogenic These usually require short term follow up u s and or MRI to make sure they are not something serious
Echogenic foci gallbladder - HealthTap Gallbladder ultrasound showed "small echogenic foci abutting the nondependent wall of the gallbladder the largest near the fundus measures 3 mm in size" - what does this mean? could this be a tumor? would ultrasound rule out cancer for sure? A doctor has provided 1 answer A member asked:
What does heterogeneously echogenic mean? - HealthTap Mixed echo pattern: Heterogeneous echogenic means ultrasound characteristics of area examined have combination of none, low and high echogenic pattern This is compared to diffusely homogeneous pattern where diffusely same echo pattern