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The patient had thorotrastosis and as a result developed hyposplenism and a hepatocellular carcinoma.

The computed tomography section demonstrated a poorly defined mass of low attenuation posteriorly in the right lobe of the liver. There was curvilinear high density material posteriorly within the lesion (fig 2, black arrow). There were also multiple small foci of high attenuation seen distributed in the region of the coeliac axis and splenic hilum (small white arrows) which were too dense to represent calcification, and the spleen was hypoplastic with the normal splenic …