How to diagnose liver cancer? Four diagnostic methods can confirm liver cancer

Liver cancer is a very common disease in our lives. I believe everyone is already very clear about the harmfulness of liver cancer. Liver cancer not only causes the death of patients, but also causes great distress to the families of many patients. To treat the disease, the disease should be diagnosed first. It is critical to understand the diagnostic methods of liver cancer.

1. Ultrasonography (US): The most commonly used and effective method for liver cancer diagnosis. The diagnosis of liver cancer is non-invasive, relatively inexpensive, reusable, non-radioactive, and highly sensitive. However, there are blind spots that are difficult to detect, which are affected by other liver disease backgrounds, as well as the operator's anatomical knowledge, and the meticulousness of the examination and operation.

2. Intraoperative ultrasound imaging: Computerized tomography (CT): A routine item for liver cancer localization diagnosis. The diagnostic value of liver cancer is to clarify the location, number, size and relationship of the lesions with important blood vessels; indicate the nature of the lesions; help locate radiotherapy; and help understand whether there are cancer lesions in the tissues and organs around the liver.

3. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI): Compared with CT, it can obtain cross-sectional, coronal and sagittal images; it is better than CT in the diagnosis of liver cancer in soft tissue resolution; it has no radiation damage; it is better than CT in differentiating benign and malignant intrahepatic masses, especially hemangiomas. In addition, MRI can show the branches of the portal vein and hepatic vein without enhancement.

4. Hepatic artery angiography: Since Seldinger pioneered the method of percutaneous femoral artery catheterization for visceral angiography in 1953, selective or superselective hepatic artery angiography has become an important means of diagnosing liver cancer.

Once the disease is diagnosed, it should be treated as soon as possible. When facing liver cancer, everyone must maintain a positive attitude and not ignore the harmfulness of the disease. In daily life, we should also pay attention to disease prevention and pay more attention to the details of our lives to avoid the troubles of the disease.