Cystic focal liver lesions in the adult: Differential CT and MR imaging features

Radiographics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 895-910

  Mortelé, Koenraad J ^a   Ros, Pablo R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile ducts, diseases, 761.288; Liver neoplasms, diagnosis, 761.314, 761.3194, 761.32; Liver neoplasms, secondary, 761.33; Liver, abscess, 761.21; Liver, cysts, 761.312; Liver, echinococcosis, 761.2083; Liver, hemorrhage, 761.412; Pancreas, cysts, 770.291

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035406964     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiographics.21.4.g01jl16895     Document Type: Article

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