Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver in a patient with chronic hepatitis C: Difficulty in differentiating it from hepatocellular carcinoma

Pathology International

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 726-730

  Kim, Soo Ryang ^a,d   Hayashi, Yoshitake ^a   Kudo, Masatoshi ^b   Matsuoka, Toshiyuki ^c   Imoto, Susumu ^a   Sasaki, Kazunori ^a   Shintani, Shigeyuki ^a   Song, Kyung Boo ^a   Park, Sok Yong ^a   Kim, Jung Hyo ^a   Ando, Kenji ^a   Koterazawa, Toshihiro ^a   Kim, Ke Ih ^a   Ninomiya, Toshiaki ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d KOBE ASAHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

CO2 ultrasound angiography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Inflammatory pseudotumor; Pseudolymphoma

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER ARTERIOGRAPHY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER TUMOR; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOLYMPHOMA; PSEUDOTUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HEPATITIS C, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032693931     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.1999.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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