A Review of Benign Hepatic Tumors and Their Imaging Characteristics

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Journal Cureus

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2020 Mar 7

PMID 32140369

Citations 2

Authors

Stephen J Patacsil

Muhammad Noor

Alexander Leyva

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Abstract

This paper concisely reviews the benign hepatic tumors most commonly encountered by clinicians. It includes the epidemiology, pathology, and imaging characteristics of hepatic hemangiomas, focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH), and hepatic adenomas (HAs).

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