ArticleBMC surgery2023
Impact of apparent diffusion coefficient on prognosis of early hepatocellular carcinoma: a case control study.
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- Evaluating boost diffusion sampling for improved abdominal imaging using prototype slice-specific shimming method.Magma (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Preoperative prediction of early recurrence in hepatocellular carcinoma using simultaneous multislice diffusion kurtosis imaging.European radiology · 2025Article
- Prognostic and predictive imaging markers of hepatocellular carcinoma: a pictorial essay.Insights into imaging · 2025Article
- Distinguishing Hepatocellular Carcinoma from Cirrhotic Regenerative Nodules Using MR Cytometry.Cancers · 2025Article
- The relationship between the tumor microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma - including cancer-associated fibroblasts and tumor-associated macrophages - and apparent diffusion coefficient.American journal of cancer research · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe investigated the usefulness of apparent diffusion coefficients (ADC) from diffusion-weighted images (DWI) obtained using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for prognosis of early hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC): Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage 0 and A.
methodsWe enrolled 102 patients who had undergone surgical resection for early HCC: BCLC stage 0 and A, and calculated their minimum ADC using DWI-MRI. We divided patients into ADC
resultsThe ADC
conclusionADC values can be used to estimate the prognosis of early HCC.
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