Large (≥2 cm) non-hypervascular nodules depicted on MRI in the cirrhotic liver: fate and implications

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1121-1130

  Yu, J S ^a   Chung, J J ^a   Kim, J H ^a   Kim, K W ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATITIS B, CHRONIC; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 50949087047     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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