Report from ECR: Imaging checklist holds key to hepatocellular carcinoma prediction

March 10, 2009 Diagnostic Imaging. Report from ECR: Imaging checklist holds key to hepatocellular carcinoma prediction By Paula Gould Mountaineering metaphors provided the framework for Sunday's Josef Lissner honorary lecture: Ode to the liver. "The liver, in my opinion, is for radiologists what the Matterhorn is for alpinists. It is a sort of litmus test for measuring your skills," said Prof. Carlo Bartolozzi, chair of radiology at the University of Pisa in Italy. Bartolozzi began by acknowledging that he was not the first to compose an ode to the liver. Pablo Neruda, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, described the liver's pathophysiology in a poem that ended with a prayer to the organ: "Do not betray me! Work on!"

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