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Pseudolesions in the Cirrhotic Liver

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This chapter analyses the different benign liver lesions and pseudolesions occurring in cirrhotic livers, such as regenerative nodules (RNs), siderotic nodules (SNs), nodular regenerative hyperplasia (NRH), large regenerative nodules (LRNs), perfusion defects and transient hepatic attenuation difference (THAD)/transient hepatic intensity difference (THID), hemangiomas in a cirrhotic liver, pseudomass in chronic portal vein thrombosis (PVT), confluent fibrosis and focal fatty changes, such as focal steatosis and fat sparing, focusing on imaging features helpful in achieving a correct diagnosis.

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Golfieri, R., Brocchi, S., Milandri, M., Renzulli, M. (2021). Pseudolesions in the Cirrhotic Liver. In: Quaia, E. (eds) Imaging of the Liver and Intra-hepatic Biliary Tract. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39021-1_11

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