Abstract

Finding and characterization of focal liver lesions is a confusing and controversial challenges in imaging today. A major problem is that all standard non-invasive imaging modalities are less sensitive than generally perceived. Liver diseases are known to affect mankind since the dawn of civilization and have steadily gained recognition as a major health problem principally because of their worldwide distribution. The most important diagnostic modalities of this century that have been made available to the diagnostic armamentarium arc Ultrasonography (USG) Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). CT plays a major role in detecting focal liver lesions. Such as in search of calcifications in primary and secondary tumors, visualization of hemorrhage either in subcunsular or in hepatic parenchyma. And also in the visualization of lipiodol distribution pattern following completed intraarterial embolization of liver tumors.

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