Sonographic Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Dysplastic Nodules in Cirrhosis: Correlation of Pretransplantation Sonography and Liver Explant Pathology in 200 Patients

Abstract

Sonography has low sensitivity but high specificity in revealing hepatocellular carcinomas and dysplastic nodules in patients with a cirrhotic liver requiring liver transplantation. In these patients, sonography should not be the sole imaging modality used for lesion detection before transplantation.