Imaging the Abdominal Manifestations of Cystic Fibrosis

Figure 1

(a) Transverse abdominal ultrasound of a 34-year-old male with cystic fibrosis. Fatty infiltration of the pancreas is typically echogenic on US. (b) The pancreas is homogenously low in attenuation on CT and is often difficult to differentiate from normal retroperitoneal fat. (c) Axial portal venous phase contrast-enhanced CT performed to assess abdominal pain in a 44-year-old CF patient 2 weeks after bilateral double lung transplant demonstrates diffuse pancreatic lipomatosis which manifests as homogenous low attenuation. Note is also made of a distended common bile duct (white arrow) due to stricture.

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