Hot quadrate sign

A hot quadrate sign is an imaging appearance of increased enhancement in CT scans or MRI, or radiotracer accumulation in nuclear medicine, in which there is enhancement of the quadrate lobe of the liver. The appearance is an indirect reflection of the collateralized flow of SVC syndrome, in which occlusion of the superior vena cava leads to preferential flow to the quadrate.^[1]

The sign is similar in mechanism but distinct in significance from the hot caudate sign, in which the caudate lobe of the liver shows preferential enhancement or radiotracer accumulation with hepatic vein occlusion in Budd Chiari syndrome. In the latter, the caudate shows preferential flow because its direct drainage into the inferior vena cava remains unobstructed, as opposed to the remnant liver which drains into the hepatic vein.^[2]

References

↑ Virmani, V; Lal, A; Ahuja, CK; Khandelwal, N. "The CT Quadrate lobe hot spot sign.". Annals of Hepatology 9 (3): 296–8. PMID 20720272.
↑ Dickson, AM (November 2005). "The focal hepatic hot spot sign.". Radiology 237 (2): 647–8. PMID 16244273.

Radiologic signs

Cardiovascular	Aortic unfolding Dense artery sign Halo sign

Respiratory	Air crescent sign Deep sulcus sign Golden S sign Hampton hump Kerley lines Peribronchial cuffing Sail sign of the chest Silhouette sign Steeple sign Thumbprint sign Traction bronchiectasis Tree-in-bud sign Westermark sign

Urogenital	Canga's bead symptom

Musculoskeletal	Crescent sign Fabella sign Fat pad sign Osteopathia striata Sail sign of the elbow

Gastrointestinal	Cupola sign Double bubble Endoexoenteric Football sign Hampton's line Hot quadrate sign Mumoli's sign Omental cake Pneumatosis intestinalis Rigler's sign Sentinel loop

Neurological	Hot cross buns Hyperdense middle cerebral artery

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