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Over the past two decades, ultrasonography and computed tomography (CT) have emerged as the principal imaging methods for diagnostic examination of the liver and biliary tree. The other noninvasive imaging techniques, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), oral cholecystography, and nuclear scintigraphy, are used for difficult diagnostic problems, and invasive studies, such as angiography and direct cholangiography (transhepatic or retrograde), are increasingly used for treatment.

Recent Technical Advances

Advances in electronics have improved diagnostic imaging. Perhaps the most important advance in liver imaging has been the introduction of helical or spiral CT scanning.¹ With conventional CT scanners, the CT table remains stationary while the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Right-Upper-Quadrant Pain

Obstructive Jaundice

Detection of Metastases

Incidental Liver Masses

Cirrhosis

Trauma

Infection

Evaluation after Liver Transplantation

Hepatitis

Iron Overload

Vascular Diseases

Conclusions

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From the Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Saini at the Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 32 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114.

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