A Case of Liver Metastasis from Colon Cancer Masquerading as Focal Sparing in a Fatty Liver

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 189-192

  Kato, Motohisa ^a   Saji, Shigetoyo ^a   Kanematsu, Masayuki ^a   Fukada, Daizo ^a   Miya, Kiichi ^a   Umemoto, Takao ^a   Kunieda, Katsuyuki ^a   Sugiyama, Yasuyuki ^a   Kuwahara, Ikuhide ^a   Shimokawa, Kuniyasu ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; Liver; Metastasis fatty infiltration; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLON TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031154524     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/27.3.189     Document Type: Article

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