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ReviewInsights into imaging2021

Spectrum of liver lesions hyperintense on hepatobiliary phase: an approach by clinical setting.

Federica Vernuccio, Domenico Salvatore Gagliano, Roberto Cannella, Ahmed Ba-Ssalamah, An Tang, Giuseppe Brancatelli

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Review in Insights into imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Quantitative Assessment of Liver Function Using the Liver Enhancement Ratio on Gadoxetic Acid-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Chronic Liver Disease.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2026
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  17. [Hepatobiliary phase image manifestation classification and pathological features of nodules in nodules accompanied by hepatocellular carcinoma].Zhonghua gan zang bing za zhi = Zhonghua ganzangbing zazhi = Chinese journal of hepatology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Federica VernuccioDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE), University of Palermo, Via del Vespro, 129, 90127, Palermo, Italy. federicavernuccio@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0350-1794
Domenico Salvatore GaglianoDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics (Bi.N.D.), University Hospital of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127, Palermo, Italy.
Roberto CannellaDepartment of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties (PROMISE), University of Palermo, Via del Vespro, 129, 90127, Palermo, Italy.
Ahmed Ba-SsalamahDepartment of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, General Hospital of Vienna (AKH), Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3527-404X
An TangDepartment of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8967-5503
Giuseppe BrancatelliDepartment of Biomedicine, Neuroscience and Advanced Diagnostics (Bi.N.D.), University Hospital of Palermo, Via del Vespro 129, 90127, Palermo, Italy.
University of Palermo · ITCentre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal · CADélégation Paris 7 · FRVienna General Hospital · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hepatobiliary MRI contrast agents are increasingly being used for liver imaging. In clinical practice, most focal liver lesions do not uptake hepatobiliary contrast agents. Less commonly, hepatic lesions may show variable signal characteristics on hepatobiliary phase. This pictorial essay reviews a broad spectrum of benign and malignant focal hepatic observations that may show hyperintensity on hepatobiliary phase in various clinical settings. In non-cirrhotic patients, focal hepatic observations that show hyperintensity in the hepatobiliary phase are usually benign and typically include focal nodular hyperplasia. In patients with primary or secondary vascular disorders, focal nodular hyperplasia-like lesions arise as a local hyperplastic response to vascular alterations and tend to be iso- or hyperintense in the hepatobiliary phase. In oncologic patients, metastases and cholangiocarcinoma are hypointense lesions in the hepatobiliary phase; however, occasionally they may show a diffuse, central and inhomogeneous hepatobiliary paradoxical uptake with peripheral rim hypointensity. Post-chemotherapy focal nodular hyperplasia-like lesions may be tricky, and their typical hyperintense rim in the hepatobiliary phase is very helpful for the differential diagnosis with metastases. In cirrhotic patients, hepatocellular carcinoma may occasionally appear hyperintense on hepatobiliary phase.

Indexed as

Gadobenate dimeglumineGadoxetate disodiumHepatocellular carcinomaLiver neoplasmsMagnetic resonance imaging

Identifiers

PMID33432491
PMCPMC7801550
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