Hepatocellular carcinoma: Detection with diffusion-weighted versus contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in pretransplant patients

Hepatology

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 140-148

  Park, Mi Suk ^a,b   Kim, Sooah ^a   Patel, Jignesh ^a   Hajdu, Cristina H ^a   G Do, Richard K ^a   Mannelli, Lorenzo ^a   Babb, James S ^a   Taouli, Bachir ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863516369     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: 15273350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.25681     Document Type: Article

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