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. 2004 Oct 21;4(2):174–180. doi: 10.1102/1470-7330.2004.0063

Figure 1.

Figure 1

HCC. (a) Arterial phase helical CT shows a minimally hyperdense lesion (arrow). (b) Portal venous phase helical CT shows that the lesion has faded and an enhancing pseudocapsule is noted (arrow). (c) Arterial phase T1-weighted fat-suppressed 3D gradient-echo scan shows enhancement of the lesion better than CT. Note that the lesion is predominantly composed of three lesions enhancing to different degrees (arrows), ‘tiled’ together like a ‘mosaic’. Note that MR shows the mosaic pattern of HCC better than CT. (d) Portal venous phase T1-weighted fat-suppressed 3D gradient-echo scan shows that there is an enhancing pseudocapsule encircling the mosaic of ‘tiles’ and the confluent portions of each nodule form a triangularly shaped enhancing fibrous septa (arrow). Note that MR shows the pseudocapsule and fibrous septa better than CT. (Reproduced with permissions from Thng CH, Kuo Y, Blomley MJ. Imaging hepatocellular carcinoma. Cancer Rev Asia-Pacific 2003; 1: 191.)