Giant and complicated variants of cystic bile duct hamartomas of the liver: MRI findings and pathological correlations

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 903-911

  Martin, Diego R ^a   Kalb, Bobby ^a   Sarmiento, Juan M ^a   Heffron, Thomas G ^a   Coban, Ipek ^a   Adsay, N Volkan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bile duct hamartoma; Biliary hamartoma; Hepatic cyst; MRI; Von meyenburg complex

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; GIANT BILE DUCT HAMARTOMA; HAMARTOMA; HEPATITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LIVER CYST; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SURGERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION; BILE DUCT TUMOR; BLEEDING; CLASSIFICATION; CYST; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CYSTS; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77950887353     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22113     Document Type: Article

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