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Twenty-five patients with PA-SOS were included in this study, and all patients were subjected to a complete CT imaging series. The imaging results were quantitatively analyzed by a threshold-based region growing algorithm. The liver volumes and hepatic lesion volumes of the patients were estimated. Based on clinical presentations, PA-SOS was classified into three categories: mild, moderate and severe. The associations of hepatic lesion volumes with liver function test parameters and the clinical severity and prognosis of the disease were analyzed. Based on estimations using the threshold-based region growing algorithm, hepatic lesion volumes in patients with mild PA-SOS were significantly lower than those in patients with moderate and severe PA-SOS (P\u2009&lt;\u20090.05). 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