Radiologic Clinics Of North America. Hepatic Imaging

Table of contents :
Cover
……Page 1
Preface……Page 2
Metastatic liver lesions……Page 3
Hepatocellular carcinoma……Page 7
Cholangiocarcinoma……Page 8
Gallbladder carcinoma……Page 9
Detecting residual disease after local treatment……Page 10
References……Page 11
Hepatic Imaging: Comparison of Modalities……Page 15
Ultrasound……Page 16
Miscellaneous……Page 17
CT……Page 18
PET……Page 19
MR imaging……Page 21
Focal liver lesions……Page 22
Diffuse liver abnormalities……Page 28
Hepatic imaging: systematic review of the literature……Page 29
References……Page 31
Nonspecific extracellular contrast agents……Page 34
Mangafodipir trisodium……Page 36
Gadobenate dimeglumine……Page 37
Gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic-acid……Page 39
Reticuloendothelial system-selective contrast agents……Page 41
Summary……Page 42
References……Page 43
Advantages of multidetector row CT……Page 46
Multiplanar and three-dimensional reconstructions……Page 47
Multiphase scanning……Page 49
Guidelines for multidetector row CT liver protocols……Page 51
Contrast injection……Page 52
Neoplasms……Page 53
Focal nodular hyperplasia……Page 54
Hepatic adenoma……Page 55
Biliary cystadenoma……Page 56
Liver transplantation……Page 57
Vascular disease……Page 58
Hepatocellular carcinoma……Page 59
Cholangiocarcinoma……Page 60
Liver metastases……Page 62
References……Page 63
Ultrasound contrast agents……Page 68
Contrast-specific imaging technique……Page 70
Liver tumor characterization and detection……Page 71
Tumor viability……Page 73
Transit time analysis……Page 76
Summary……Page 77
References……Page 78
Pre-, Peri-, and Posttreatment Imaging of Liver Lesions……Page 80
Tumor vascularity……Page 81
Ablative therapies……Page 82
Ablation therapy……Page 83
Systemic chemotherapy……Page 85
Ablated lesions……Page 86
Protocol for follow-up……Page 87
Complications……Page 88
References……Page 89
MR imaging techniques and concepts……Page 93
Liver tumor detection and characterization……Page 98
Hemangiomas……Page 100
Primary hepatocellular carcinoma……Page 101
Hypovascular metastases……Page 102
MR imaging of diffuse liver diseases……Page 103
Fatty liver……Page 105
Iron deposition disease……Page 107
Acute hepatitis……Page 109
Chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis……Page 112
Budd-Chiari (hepatic vein thrombosis)……Page 115
References……Page 116
Hepatic metastases……Page 119
Multitined expandable probes……Page 120
Heat loss……Page 121
Combined therapies……Page 122
Patient selection……Page 124
Procedure……Page 125
Postablation imaging……Page 127
Results……Page 129
Complications……Page 130
References……Page 131