Small scirrhous hepatocellular carcinoma with central scar: MR imaging findings

✍ Scribed by Satoshi Goshima; Masayuki Kanematsu; Tetsuya Yamada; Hiroshi Kondo; Masayuki Matsuo; Shinji Osada; Osamu Nakashima; Noriyuki Moriyama; Hiroaki Hoshi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 900 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1053-1807
• DOI: 10.1002/jmri.10211

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We describe the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging findings of a small scirrhous hepatocellular carcinoma in a 74‐year‐old man. The initial MR imaging findings indicated that the tumor had a small central scar, which suggested the differential diagnoses of hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma, and metastasis. A small scirrhous hepatocellular carcinoma may have a central scar and should be included in the differential diagnoses for small hepatic masses with a central scar. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2002;16:741–745. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.