Figure 4.

MRI of a 31-year-old male patient with a pathologically verified hepatocellular carcinoma of Edmondson-Steiner grade III. The patient suffered intrahepatic recurrence at 8 months after tumor resection. A 6.3 cm tumor in right lobe of the liver shows heterogeneous hyperintensity on T2-weighted image (A), hypointensity on 20-min hepatobiliary phase (B) and restricted diffusion on the diffusion-weighted image with a b-value of 700 s/mm² (C). ADC (D) shows lower signal intensity compared with that of liver parenchyma. [Reproduced with permission from reference [51]].