[Benign Focal Hepatic Lesions]

Overview

Journal Radiologe

Specialty Radiology

Date 2011 Aug 3

PMID 21809146

Citations 2

Authors

S Baroud

N Bastati

H Prosch

W Schima

A Ba-Ssalamah

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Abstract

A profound knowledge of the various benign focal hepatic lesions and selection of the most suitable radiological examination modality is essential for achieving an accurate characterization of a hepatic lesion and in turn will determine the further patient management. This will avoid unnecessary agitation to both patient and the referring clinician and limits time-consuming, costly and risky biopsies to an absolute minimum. The following article will discuss the typical and atypical appearances of the most frequent and clinically relevant benign focal hepatic lesions with ultrasound, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.

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