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Benign Focal Liver Lesions

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Atlas of Contrast-enhanced Sonography of Focal Liver Lesions

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Abstract

A simple hepatic cyst is a single, unilocular lesion containing homogeneous serous fluid surrounded by a single layer of cuboidal epithelium, identical to that of bile ducts, and a thin underlying rim of fibrous stroma [1].

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    Tommaso Vincenzo Bartolotta, Adele Taibbi & Massimo Midiri

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Bartolotta, T.V., Taibbi, A., Midiri, M. (2015). Benign Focal Liver Lesions. In: Atlas of Contrast-enhanced Sonography of Focal Liver Lesions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17539-3_2

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