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These review articles will enhance the knowledge of radiologists about current imaging modalities and various contrast agents for the detection and characterization hepatocellular nodules including hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in liver cirrhosis, and new concepts of imaging findings, and enable to understand these nodules more completely and thus accurately diagnose HCC.
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Choi, B.I. Guest editor’s introduction: Hepatocellular nodules in liver cirrhosis: imaging update 2011. Abdom Imaging 36, 230–231 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-011-9682-4
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