8th Baltic Congress of Radiology

08.10.2022 Tallinn, Estonia

Paradigms in HCC and chronic liver disease multimodal radiological assessment

Maija Radzina (Latvia)

Assoc.Prof.MD, PhD, Radiologist, Riga Stradins University

Biography: President of Latvian Radiology Association and Chief of RSU Radiology Research laboratory. She is well known as a passionate educator in clinical radiology, diligent researcher, and opinion leader in the Baltic countries and Europe. Her research has been devoted to innovative methods in vascular, endocrine, hepatobiliary and oncology imaging: CT perfusion, contrast-enhanced ultrasound, US elastography, PET/CT, and furthermore computer science developments in Artificial Intelligence.

Presentation

Black Box

Synopsis: HCC incidence and related mortality are high due to long-term virus hepatitis burden, therefore early diagnostics and precise differential diagnosis among various neoangiogenesis within regenerative, dysplastic nodules and different grade HCC is a prerequisite for a patient-centered approach. This lecture will give an overview of various imaging modalities such as US, CEUS, CT, and MRI and will show their advantages and disadvantages in chronic liver disease.

This agenda item is presented in the following session: S5-1 Abdominal Radiology

Plenary session

08.10.2022 09:00 - 10:30