Advances in the study of cirrhosis and precancerous lesions of liver cancer / 中华肝脏病杂志

ABSTRACT

Liver cirrhosis is a common kind of chronic liver diseases, with the development of diseases; some patients may gradually develop precancerous lesions, or even progress to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Precancerous lesions of the liver mainly include dysplastic foci (DF) and dysplastic nodules (DN), and most of it occurs on the basis of liver cirrhosis. Thus, recognition of precancerous lesions and liver cirrhosis through screening, combined with imaging and pathological features will identity the nature of nodules in early stage cirrhosis and HCC, and thereby will help to improve the diagnosis rate and clinical prognosis.