Diffuse perfusion abnormality of the liver parenchyma on angiography-assisted helical CT in relation to cirrhosis and previous treatments: A potential diagnostic pitfall for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 292-297

  Makita, Osamu ^a,b   Yamashita, Yasuyuki ^a   Arakawa, Akihiko ^a   Nakayama, Yoshiharu ^a   Mitsuzaki, Katsuhiko ^a   Ando, Michio ^a   Namimoto, Tomohiro ^a   Oyama, Yoichi ^a   Takahashi, Mutsumasa ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yatsushiro General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; CT arterial portography; CT hepatic arteriography; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Perfusion abnormality

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

LIVER;

CELLS;

IOVERSOL; LIPOPROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER ARTERIOGRAPHY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHEMOEMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; PORTOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034447568     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(00)00225-4     Document Type: Article

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