Biliary hamartomas simulating multiple hepatic metastasis on imaging findings

Kurume Medical Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 231-235

  Iha, Hayato ^a   Nakashima, Yutaka ^a   Fukukura, Yoshihiko ^a   Tanaka, Masaya ^a   Wada, Yoshito ^a   Takazawa, Tsutomu ^a   Nakashima, Osamu ^a   Kojiro, Masamichi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biliary hamartoma; Imaging findings; Liver; Tumor like lesion; Von Meyenburg complex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC BILE DUCT; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

BILE DUCT DISEASES; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030347526     PISSN: 00235679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2739/kurumemedj.43.231     Document Type: Article

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