Enhancing and expansile portal vein thrombosis: Value in the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with multiple hepatic lesions

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1320-1323

  Shah, Zarine K ^a   McKernan, Margaret G ^a   Hahn, Peter F ^a   Sahani, Dushyant V ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal imaging; Cancer; Liver disease

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34247583769     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.0134     Document Type: Article

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