Table 3.

radiological findings

Characteristics (n patients)	Number of cases/ Number of patients	Percentage
Abdominal ultrasonography (n= 179)
Nodular HCC	122	68.2
1 nodular lesion	59	33
2 nodular lesions	13	7.3
3 nodular lesions	3	1.7
More than 3 nodular lesions	47	26.2
Infiltrative HCC	19	10.6
No suspicious lesion of HCC	38	21.2
Hepatic dysmorphia	36	20.1
Normal	2	1.1
Aspect of non tumoral parenchyma (n= 141)
Cirrhotic	91	64.5
Normal	50	35.5
Portal vein thrombosis	73	40.8
Ascites	80	44.7
CT scan (n= 134)
Lesions of HCC	119	88.8
Liver cirrhosis with portal vein thrombosis without HCC lesion	7	5.2
Non-specific focal lesion	4	3
Aspect of secondary liver tumor	3	2.2
Normal	1	0.7