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Computed tomography in the detection of small hepatocellular carcinomas

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Thirty-two patients with hepatocellular carcinoma less than 5 cm in diameter were examined by computed tomography. At the examination 26 patients (81%) were correctly diagnosed. A common type of CT image series was detectable as low density on the precontrast scan, a positive or mixed pattern on dynamic scan, and visible on postcontrast scan. In 10 patients with minute tumors (less than 2 cm), 7 were correctly diagnosed. CT was valuable for diagnosis of the small hepatocellular carcinomas larger than 1 cm by using the dynamic study after an intravenous bolus injection of the contrast medium.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1 Mukogawa-cho Nishinomiya, 663, Hyogo, Japan

    Kazuo Inamoto M.D., Shinichi Tanaka & Hideo Yamazaki

  2. Department of Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

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Inamoto, K., Tanaka, S., Yamazaki, H. et al. Computed tomography in the detection of small hepatocellular carcinomas. Gastrointest Radiol 8, 321–326 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01948143

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