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RADIOGRAPHICS
卷 21, 期 -, 页码 S117-S132出版社
RADIOLOGICAL SOC NORTH AMERICA
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.21.suppl_1.g01oc14s117
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liver, cirrhosis; liver neoplasms; liver neoplasm; liver neoplasms
The inherent distortion of the appearance of liver parenchyma by the underlying pathologic changes of cirrhosis can obscure and simulate malignancy at imaging. That hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common abdominal malignancy worldwide and occurs most often in patients with chronic liver disease and cirrhosis compounds this problem. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and, to a lesser extent, computed tomography (CT) can depict the underlying nodular and fibrotic changes in patients with cirrhosis, particularly when siderotic nodular regeneration is present. Application of state-of-the-art helical CT and MR imaging techniques has improved the ability to detect hepatocellular carcinoma in this population, but, even with these advances, fewer than 50% of small tumors are detected with either of these techniques in a screening population. Dynamic hepatic arterial-phase contrast material- enhanced imaging is essential with both CT and MR imaging to achieve even these levels of success. Benign lesions that simulate tumor tissue are encountered in many patients with cirrhosis and include focal fibrosis infarcted regenerative nodules arteriovenous shunts he,,, mangiomas, pseudoaneurysms, and focal transient hepatic enhancement. An awareness of the imaging characteristics of these lesions can help one avoid a mistaken diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in many cases.
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