Tissue specific MR contrast media role in the differential diagnosis of cirrhotic liver nodules.
State-of-the-art magnetic resonance (MR) imaging using tissue specific contrast media facilitates detection and characterization in most cases of hepatic nodules. According to the currently used nomenclature, in liver cirrhosis there are only two major types of hepatocellular nodular lesions: regenerative lesions and dysplastic or neoplastic lesions. The purpose of this clinical imaging review is to provide information on the properties of tissue-specific MR contrast agents and on their usefulness in the demonstration of the pathologic changes that take place at the level of the hepatobiliary and reticuloendothelial systems during the carcinogenesis in liver cirrhosis.
Radiology and Imaging Department, Fundeni Hospital, Bucharest, Romania. ilupescu@gmail.com
Ioana Gabriela
IG
Lupescu
Razvan A
RA
Capsa
Liana
L
Gheorghe
Vlad
V
Herlea
Serban A
SA
Georgescu
D003287:Contrast Media; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging
D003287:Contrast Media