title: Mass-like hepatic hypertrophy: MRI findings with histologic correlation.
abstract: Hepatic parenchyma may hypertrophy following asymmetrical injury. The histologic characteristics of hypertrophic hepatic parenchyma are more similar to normal hepatic parenchyma than is the more severely damaged liver. We present four cases where large hypertrophic masses resembled neoplasm on other imaging modalities or at surgery, but had MRI signal characteristics similar to those of normal liver.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Palazzo
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Hann
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tempany
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chako
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rubin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy / Q000473:pathology; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged