Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) Version 2018: Imaging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in At-Risk

Victoria Chernyak1, Kathryn J Fowler1, Aya Kamaya1

  • 1From the Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, 111 E 210th St, Bronx, NY 10467 (V.C.); Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo (K.J.F.); Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, Calif (A.K.); Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (A.Z.K.); Department of Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex (K.M.E.); Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (M.R.B.); Center for Advanced Magnetic Resonance Development, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (M.R.B.); Department of Medicine and Radiology (Y.K.), and Liver Imaging Group, Department of Radiology (C.B.S.), University of California-San Diego, San Diego, Calif; Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (R.K.D.); Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa (D.G.M.); Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Tex (A.G.S.); and Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada (A.T.).

Radiology
|September 26, 2018
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