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Radiographic Assessment for Liver Tumors

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Primary and Metastatic Liver Tumors

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Imaging plays a pivotal role in management of benign and malignant liver tumors. A wide range of modalities including both conventional and modern, state-of-the-art imaging techniques provide invaluable information for better management of patients with suspected hepatic tumors. Besides the technique itself, knowledge of characteristics of a particular lesion and appropriate employment of this information to prescribe optimal management are critical. In this chapter, we discuss imaging characteristics of more frequently encountered benign and malignant hepatic tumors.

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Fouladi, D., Shao, N., Zarghampour, M., Pandey, A., Pandey, P., Kamel, I.R. (2018). Radiographic Assessment for Liver Tumors. In: Cardona, K., Maithel, S. (eds) Primary and Metastatic Liver Tumors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91977-5_2

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