Hepatocellular carcinoma in cirrhotic liver CT an MRI findings

ABSTRACT: For all practical purposes, you should consider cirrhosis to be a pre-malignant condition. This means that a patient with cirrhosis is at risk for developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The greater or lesser risk depends on the etiology of the cirrhosis. There are a lot of complication...

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Autores:
Castrillón, Germán Alberto
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2007
Institución:
Universidad de Antioquia
Repositorio:
Repositorio UdeA
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/28388
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10495/28388
https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/iatreia/article/view/4350
Palabra clave:
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Carcinoma Hepatocelular
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
Liver Cirrhosis
Cirrosis Hepática
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openAccess
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/co/
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Summary:ABSTRACT: For all practical purposes, you should consider cirrhosis to be a pre-malignant condition. This means that a patient with cirrhosis is at risk for developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The greater or lesser risk depends on the etiology of the cirrhosis. There are a lot of complications of cirrhosis, but the most dreaded one is hepatocelular carcinoma. I am going to do a brief review of cirrhosis and then I will talk about the HCC that is the focus of this review.