title: Focal liver lesions.
abstract: Despite rapid technologic advances, and the introduction of new, competitive imaging techniques, ultrasound, although a mature modality, remains a versatile and indispensible technology. Ease, access, low cost, and accuracy will assure its central role in the investigation of localized hepatic lesions for the foreseeable future.
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Lande
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Hill
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries / Q000473:pathology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000191:economics