Imaging of liver tumours: What’s new?

Abstract

Liver tumours are very common and malignant tumours represent a major cause of cancer‐related death. Imaging plays an important role at many different stages of the care pathway. This review discusses new aspects and new roles for imaging and for MRI, in particular. MRI is already the best tool for the characterization and staging of benign and malignant liver tumours and it could also become a useful screening tool, especially for hepatocellular carcinoma. Liver imaging will be increasingly quantitative in the future, integrating new approaches such as those of artificial intelligence.

HCC advances in diagnosis and prognosis: Digital and Imaging

“…Integrated radiopathological diagnostics, defined as the seamless collaboration between these two disciplines, is of increasing importance in the management of liver tumors 16 . A high degree of histological heterogeneity can be observed in HCC with different, easily defined, subtypes such as the pseudoglandular HCC, scirrhous HCC, spindle cell HCC, steatohepatitic HCC.…”

“…Integrated radiopathological diagnostics, defined as the seamless collaboration between these two disciplines, is of increasing importance in the management of liver tumors. 16 A high degree of histological heterogeneity can be observed in HCC with different, easily defined, subtypes such as the pseudoglandular HCC, scirrhous HCC, spindle cell HCC, steatohepatitic HCC. A new subtype was recently described, which is the macrotrabecular variant of HCC, with an aggressive phenotype, frequent satellite nodules and both macro and micro-vascular invasion.…”