Figure 2.
MRI staging example of a 56-year-old female after three courses of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. On diffusion-weighted imaging (b), a conspicuous lesion (arrowheads) is found in the area of the hepatic hilum. On T2 weighted imaging, the lesion can be distinguished as malignant. With CT (2 weeks earlier) alone, this large lesion largely “fades“ into its surroundings, making it difficult to spot and was therefore not mentioned in the original CT report. This extensive disease in the liver hilum, among others, rendered the patient inoperable.