I am a 37 yo female, in good health, I just delivered a baby by c-sect 14 mo. ago, and stopped nursing about 2 months ago. No birth control pills for several years. Recently, I saw my PCP for some left flank pain, the u/a was neg. but pos. for blood (I've had that and been workup'd for it in the last 8 years, ? why), nonetheless, they sent me for CT urogram. They first caught a nodule on my right lung, but that was dx'd as a granuloma after some other tests, and yes, I did have a stone in both kidneys. Then with the ABD U/S and CT with/without contrast, I was told that I have two nodules on my liver, one 2mm, the other 7mm, one in left and one on right lobes. Occasionally, I have dull pain RUQ, front to back, but have had this for three years and I was evaluated then with U/S and CT, and was told just "fatty liver." The dull achness actually decreased quite a bit after I stopped nursing my daughter. Anyway,the CT report stated possible FNP, but could not exclude adenoma maglinancy. My GI dr. drew CEA,CA19-9, CA-125, AFP, and coag's. I am a nurse at the facility and have access to the lab work, just couldn't help looking up results, it was making me crazy. So I did and all the blood work was completly normal; tumor markers, LFT's and CBC, no high's or low's, just normal all the way around. Which made me feel better, but I am still concerned. I had an ABD MRI yesterday, won't know those results until next week. I have a few questions. Could the hormonal elevation during pregnancy and nursing contribute to these nodules? Could they just be "fatty nodules," or would that pretty much be ruled out from U/S and CT? I guess there is some hypervasularity to them. And if this were CA, most likely wouldn't the markers be even slightly elevated? If the MRI is inconclusive, is needle biospy probably next? Or surgical resection?