Gadoxetate Acid-Enhanced MR Imaging for HCC: A Review for Clinicians
Figure 2
(a–c) Contrast-enhanced CT in the arterial, venous and equilibrium phases of a 75-year-old male Hepatitis B virus carrier showing an indeterminate slightly hypodense nonhypervascular nodule in the liver segment 6. (d) Gadoxetate acid-enhanced MRI in the hepatobiliary phase 20 minutes after injection showing a hypointense nodule against the background of enhancing liver parenchyma, implying lack of lesional uptake, suspicious for HCC or high-grade dysplastic nodule. Final surgical histopathology was a well-differentiated Edmondson-Steiner grade I HCC.
