Amit G Singal, T Tara Ghaziani, Neil Mehta, Kali Zhou, Lauren T Grinspan, Jihane N Benhammou, Andrew M Moon, Ju Dong Yang, Reena Salgia, Anjana Pillai, Elizabeth Zheng, Nicole E Rich, Purva Gopal, Prasun Jalal, Elizabeth Verna, Sruthi Yekkaluri, Samuel Phen, Jonathan Melendez-Torres, Omar Alshuwaykh, Hailey Choi, Kevin Junus, John Grady, Michael Song, Emily A Leven, Jung Yum, Vrushab Gowda, Manaf Alsudaney, Perla Hernandez, Nirmal Desai, Neehar D Parikh
BACKGROUND: Patients with cirrhosis and subcentimeter lesions on liver ultrasound are recommended to undergo short-interval follow-up ultrasound because of the presumed low risk of primary liver cancer (PLC). AIMS: The aim of this study is to characterize recall patterns and risk of PLC in patients with subcentimeter liver lesions on ultrasound. METHODS: We conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study among patients with cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis B infection who had subcentimeter ultrasound lesions between January 2017 and December 2019...
March 1, 2023: Hepatology Communications