Arterioportal shunt: Prevalence in small hemangiomas versus that in hepatocellular carcinomas 3 cm or smaller at two-phase helical CT

Radiology

Volumn 232, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 354-360

  Byun, Jae Ho ^a   Kim, Tae Kyoung ^a,b   Lee, Choong Wook ^a   Lee, Jeong Kyong ^a,c   Kim, Ah Young ^a   Kim, Pyo Nyun ^a   Ha, Hyun Kwon ^a   Lee, Moon Gyu ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Mokdong Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Liver neoplasms; Liver neoplasms, CT; Liver, hemangioma; Shunts, arterioportal

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; TWO PHASE SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IODIZED OIL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 3242790802     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2322030966     Document Type: Review

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