Clinical implication of small (<20 mm) enhancing hepatic nodules observed only during three-dimensional gadobenate dimeglumine-enhanced hepatic arterial-phase MRI of the hepatitis B virus-induced mild cirrhosis

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 453-459

  Kim, Young Kon ^a   Lee, Young Hwan ^b   Kwak, Hyo Sung ^a   Kim, Chong Soo ^a   Han, Young Min ^a  

^a Chonbuk National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^b Wonkwang University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cirrhosis; Liver; Magnetic resonance imaging; neoplasm

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; LIVER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESONANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VIRUSES;

BENIGN LESIONS; CIRRHOSIS; CLASS A; HEPATITIS B VIRUSES; HEPATOCELLULAR; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NEOPLASM; PHASE IMAGES; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SIZE RANGES; VIRAL HEPATITISES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

FERUCARBOTRAN; GADOBENATE DIMEGLUMINE; GADOBENIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SIZE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEGLUMINE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 55649115294     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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