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Combined hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma of the liver: sonography, CT, angiography, and iodized-oil CT with pathologic correlation.

Abstract
To evaluate the characteristics of combined hepatocellular and cholangiocarcinoma of the liver by imaging techniques, six patients (five male and one female), aged 46-60 years, with proved combined tumors were selected for this study from the review of 500 resected specimens of liver tumors. Images obtained from sonography, computed tomography (CT), angiography, and CT after intraarterial injection of iodized oil (iodized-oil CT) were retrospectively reviewed and correlated with the appearance of pathologic specimens. Sonographic findings were round or ovoid hypoechoic masses with central hyperechoic area (target appearance) in all patients. On CT scans, tumors were relatively well-defined low-and/or iso-attenuation masses in all patients. Angiography showed hypovascular masses in five patients. In one patient, the tumor appeared as a hypovascular mass with a central hypervascular area. On iodized-oil CT scans, all patients showed partial retention of iodized oil in tumors. Echogenicity in tumors at sonography or attenuation in tumors at CT could not be correlated with histologic difference in tumors at pathologic specimens. However, the hypervascular area at angiography and the compact retention areas of iodized oil at iodized-oil CT corresponded to portions of hepatocellular carcinoma within the combined tumor. On the basis of our results, imaging features, including target appearance at sonography, hypovascular mass with central hypervascular portions at angiography, and partial retention of iodized oil in tumors at iodized-oil CT, might be helpful in making accurate diagnosis of these rare tumors.
AuthorsB I Choi, J K Han, Y I Kim, H C Kim, J H Park, C W Kim, M C Han
JournalAbdominal imaging (Abdom Imaging) 1994 Jan-Feb Vol. 19 Issue 1 Pg. 43-6 ISSN: 0942-8925 [Print] United States
PMID8161902 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Iodized Oil
Topics
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular (diagnostic imaging, pathology)
  • Cholangiocarcinoma (diagnostic imaging, pathology)
  • Female
  • Hepatic Artery (diagnostic imaging)
  • Humans
  • Iodized Oil
  • Liver Neoplasms (diagnostic imaging, pathology)
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed (methods)
  • Ultrasonography

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