Park, So Hyun
Shim, Young Sup
Kim, Bohyun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1157-415X
Kim, So Yeon
Kim, Yun Soo
Huh, Jimi
Park, Ji Hyun
Kim, Kyung Won
Lee, Seung Soo
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2017R1A2B3011475)
Gachon University research fund of 2017 (GCU-2017-5256)
Article History
Received: 15 July 2020
Revised: 21 September 2020
Accepted: 30 November 2020
First Online: 3 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Bohyun Kim.
: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
: Ji Hyun Park, who is one of the authors, performed the statistical analysis. Additional analysis was provided by the Office of Biostatistics, Ajou Research Institute for Innovation Medicine, Ajou University Medical Center, Suwon, Korea.
: The requirement for written informed consent was waived by the institutional review board of three institutions.
: Institutional Review Board approval of Asan Medical Center, Gil Medical Center, and Ajou University Hospital was obtained.
: Of the 386 patients in the current study, 280 patients were included in the two prior studies exploring the application of abbreviated MRI in HCC diagnosis. Prior studies differ considerably from current study in terms of the purpose, design, and statistical analysis.
: • Retrospective• Diagnostic or prognostic study• Multicenter study