Multifocal nodular fatty infiltration of the liver mimicking metastatic disease on CT: Imaging findings and diagnosis using MR imaging

European Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1095-1100

  Kroncke T J ^a   Taupitz, M ^a   Kivelitz, D ^a   Scheer, I ^a   Daberkow, U ^a   Rudolph, B ^a   Hamm, B ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fatty infiltration; Liver; Metastases; MRI; Opposed phase

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

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

EID: 1642586704     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300000360     Document Type: Article

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