Published in Cancer Weekly, August 1st, 2006
According to recent research from Japan, "The radiologic diagnosis of liver metastasis involves detection, characterization, and tumor staging. Knowledge of the histopathologic changes that occur with metastases provides the best approach to the accurate interpretation of radiologic imaging findings, and in particular, radiologists need to choose appropriate imaging methods based on such knowledge."
"Because the majority of metastases are hypovascular, the merits of the routine acquisition of hepatic arterial dominant-phase images by contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) or magnetic...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-08-01)
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