Unequivocal diagnosis with avoidance of falsepositive results is very relevant in patients with liver disease in whom an imaging technique detects a nodule that raises the potential emergence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Although biopsy confirmation is standard in most cancers, several studies have shown that reliable HCC diagnosis may be established by imaging techniques in patients wit…
Cirrhosis is the most common cause of portal hypertension but a heterogeneous group of clinical entities, collectively referred to as non-cirrhotic portal hypertension (NCPH), can also lead to elevation of the portal venous pressure in the absence of cirrhosis. Common causes of NCPH are nonalcoholic or alcoholic steatohepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis, conge…