Letter from the Guest Editor

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When I was asked by Gabriela Gayer, MD, to serve as a guest editor for an issue of Seminars in Ultrasound, CT, and MRI dealing with the liver, I was happy to do so. We chose to take an approach different from most monographs or journals, approaching a series of topics as expert differential diagnoses for imaging findings that might be encountered in the clinical practice of radiology. We asked a group of expert radiologists, representing many of the leading academic departments in America, Europe, Japan, and Israel, to give us their approach to distinguishing among the common and less common etiologies that might present a challenge in imaging diagnosis. These include liver lesions that are cystic or hypervascular, lesions that are hyperintense on T-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, focal hyperperfusion abnormalities (THADs and THIDs), as well as liver masses with a central or eccentric scar.

The authors have responded with definitive review articles that are comprehensive, informative, practical, and beautifully illustrated.

I hope and believe you will find this issue of Seminars to be very informative and useful in your own practice.