Solitary necrotic nodule of the liver: Always benign?

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 536-540

  Deniz, Kemal ^a   Çoban, Ganime ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Liver; Metastasis; Necrotic; Nodule; Parasites

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEEDLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 77950515997     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-009-1120-3     Document Type: Article

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