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Benign Hepatic Lesions

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Abstract

Benign lesions of the liver are increasingly diagnosed because of widespread use of noninvasive imaging for unrelated disorders and routine screening for metastatic disease. As most of these lesions are asymptomatic, it is imperative that they be diagnosed with maximum accuracy so that they may be safely observed. The commonest benign lesions, which cause a clinical dilemma, are hepatic cysts, hemangiomas, liver cell adenoma (LCA) and focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH). This chapter will address the issues shown in Table 1.

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Benjamin, I.S., Gupta, S., Koea, J., Fong, Y., Garden, O.J. (2001). Benign Hepatic Lesions. In: Controversies in Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56777-3_4

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