Focal fatty liver sparing lesion presenting as a "pseudotumour": Case report

Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-326

  Zezos, Petros ^a   Tatsi, P ^a   Nakos, A ^a   Pachiadakis, I ^a   Kosmatopoulos, F ^a   Zafiriadou, E ^b   Molyvas, E ^a   Patsiaoura, K ^b  

^a 424 General Army Hospital   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University and Hippokration General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Focal fatty liver sparing lesion; Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; Steatosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FATTY LIVER; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PSEUDOTUMOR; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STEATOSIS; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FATTY LIVER; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33751331733     PISSN: 00015644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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