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Differentiating Cirrhosis and Chronic Hepatosplenic Schistosomiasis Using MRI

Alexandre Sérgio de Araújo Bezerra, Giuseppe D’Ippolito, Rogério Pedreschi Caldana, Denise de Deus Leopoldino, Giovani Rodrigues Batista, Durval Rosa Borges, Gaspar de Jesus Lopes Filho, Muneeb Ahmed

American Journal of Roentgenology · 2008 · 26 citations · 28 references

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Abstract

The presence of peripheral periportal fibrosis, heterogeneity of hepatic parenchyma, and splenic siderotic nodules, and the splenic index and caudate lobe-right lobe ratio are useful features for differentiating alcoholic or virus-induced cirrhosis from chronic schistosomiasis using MRI.

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