Abstract | BACKGROUND/AIMS: Progress in diagnostic imaging has increased the number of focal liver lesions detected and reports of an occasional finding of inflammatory pseudotumors of the liver are becoming numerous. To estimate their prevalence and clinical impact in surgical series we evaluate retrospectively our experience. METHODOLOGY: Four hundred and three patients carriers of a total of 717 focal liver lesions underwent liver resection consecutively in our Department from October 1995 to August 1999. All these patients underwent surgery. RESULTS: CONCLUSIONS: Our experience shows that, despite the low prevalence of hepatic inflammatory pseudotumors, their impact in the appropriate management of patients with focal liver lesions is not irrelevant.
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Authors | G Torzilli, K Inoue, Y Midorikawa, A M Hui, T Takayama, M Makuuchi |
Journal | Hepato-gastroenterology
(Hepatogastroenterology)
2001 Jul-Aug
Vol. 48
Issue 40
Pg. 1118-23
ISSN: 0172-6390 [Print] Greece |
PMID | 11490814
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Topics |
- Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
(complications, surgery)
- Female
- Granuloma, Plasma Cell
(diagnosis, surgery)
- Humans
- Liver Diseases
(diagnosis, surgery)
- Liver Neoplasms
(complications, surgery)
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Retrospective Studies
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