Differential diagnosis of hepatic tumors with delayed enhancement at gadolinium-enhanced MRI: A pictorial essay

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 180-187

  Awaya, Hitomi ^a   Ito, Katusyoshi ^b   Honjo, Kazumitsu ^a   Fujita, Takeshi ^a   Matsumoto, Tsuneo ^a   Matsunaga, Naofumu ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver neoplasms, delayed enhancement; Liver neoplasms, diagnosis; Liver neoplasms, MR; Liver, MR

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; DEVICE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; NODULAR HYPERPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; REVIEW;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GADOLINIUM DTPA; GIANT LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 0031976295     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(97)00123-X     Document Type: Review

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