Fig. 7.

PATHOLOGY: IMT of the liver. Axial reformations of T1-weighted MR before and after intravenous gadolinium injection. Well-defined, hypointense lesion on T1-weighted images (a) which presented weak enhancement in the arterial phase (b) and wash-out on portal and equilibrium phases (c-, d) located in hepatic left lobe. Capsule was present. e Macroscopic view of partial hepatectomy obtained after surgical excision of the lesion. A solid, well-defined and yellowing appearance mass is showed. f The lesion demostrated an expansive chronic inflammatory infiltrate of plasmatic cells, lymphocytes and macrophages. The nearby hepatocytes (*) were normal