Comparison of Imaging and Clinically Relevant Features of Combined Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cholangiocarcinoma with Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

CONCLUSIONS Multi-phase contrast-enhanced CT may be useful for preoperative diagnosis of cHCC-CC in tumors with a diffuse boundary, no pseudocapsule, extensive necrosis (>50%), and a dilated bile duct, and when the CT value in the delayed phase is higher than in the arterial phase. VEGF expression is more likely to be positive in HCC than cHCC-CC. There was no significant difference between cHCC-CC and HCC in prognosis, but cHCC-CC was more likely to recur after treatment than HCC. PMID: 31726461 [PubMed - in process]
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