Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 426-435 , October 2009

Liver Lesions With Hepatic Capsular Retraction

  • Arye Blachar, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to: Arye Blachar, MD, Department of Radiology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street. Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel
    • ,
  • Michael P. Federle, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
    • ,
  • Jacob Sosna, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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doi: 10.1053/j.sult.2009.06.002

Seminars in Ultrasound, CT and MRI
Volume 30, Issue 5 , Pages 426-435 , October 2009

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