Hepatic abscess mimicking hepatocellular carcinoma in a patient with alcoholic liver disease

Hepatic abscesses are known to present with various imaging findings according to the degree of maturation and internal contents.1 Hepatic abscess rarely mimics hepatic neoplasm such as HCC. As evidenced by our case, if there are no clinical and laboratory findings suggestive of hepatic abscess, hepatic abscess that presents with imaging findings, such as early arterial enhancement and delayed washout, mosaic pattern of enhancement, and well-defined tumoral capsule with delayed enhancement could be hardly differentiated from HCC.