title: Diffuse liver disease.
abstract: During the last decade, the role of the radiologist in evaluating patients with diffuse liver disease has increasingly expanded. In many cases, the management choices for the hepatologist in the imaging work-up of a patient with suspicion of a diffuse liver disease have significantly widened. In some instances, imaging may point directly to the diagnosis; in many instances, imaging helps narrow the differential diagnosis or is crucial in the follow-up of patients. Although some rare entities still have nonspecific radiologic features, the imaging pattern, in combination with appropriate clinical information, may provide the most likely diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. pros@partners.org
authors.forename: Pablo R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Ros
authors.forename: Koenraad J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Mortele
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed