Hypervascular focus in the nonhypervascular nodule ("Nodule-in- Nodule") on dynamic computed tomography: Imaging evidence of aggressive progression in hepatocellular carcinoma

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 131-135

  Yu, Jeong Sik ^a   Chung, Jae Joon ^a   Kim, Joo Hee ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; CT; Hepatocellular carcinoma

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CIRRHOSIS; CT; DOUBLING TIME; FOLLOW UP; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC LESIONS; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; ON DYNAMICS; TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR VOLUME; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62149110089     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0b013e3181670fa3     Document Type: Article

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