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Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016 Published online: 24 August 2016
Abdom Radiol (2017) 42:337338 DOI: 10.1007/s00261-016-0879-4
Abdominal
Radiology
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Web End = The Lucent Liver Sign
David J. DiSantis,1 Raymond B. Dyer2
1Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 4500 San Pablo Road South, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA
2Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
While originally described in infants as a clue to pneumoperitoneum visible on supine abdominal radiographs [1], extraluminal gas collecting ventral to the liver can produce abnormal right upper quadrant lucency in adults as well.
Depending on the volume of free gas, the...