Diffusion-weighted MR imaging findings in a growing problem: Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis

Kantarci M., PIRIMOGLU B.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY, cilt.83, sa.10, ss.1991-1992, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Kısa Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 83 Sayı: 10
  • Basım Tarihi: 2014
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2014.07.013
  • Dergi Adı: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1991-1992
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Hepatic alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a rare parasitic disease which simulates slow growing malignant processes. Cross-sectional imaging techniques play important role in differentiating between AE lesions and malignant processes such as cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Diffusion-weighted (DW) MRI is a non-invasive technique, which can be used for liver lesion detection and characterisation as benign or malignant in recent years. Both conventional MRI and non-contrast enhanced CT images may be insufficient the differential diagnosis in hepatic AE lesions particularly in solid components. In our study, we have performed to differentiate hepatic AE lesions from HCC and CCC lesions of the liver by using DW MRI and tried to define ADC value of hepatic AE lesions for differentiation from malignant hepatic lesions. Crown Copyright (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.