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Pediatr Radiol DOI 10.1007/s00247-014-2975-3 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Gadobenate-dimeglumine-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging for hepatic lesions in children Govind B. Chavhan Erika Mann Binita M. Kamath Paul S. Babyn Received: 31 August 2013 /Revised: 10 February 2014 /Accepted: 12 March 2014 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 Abstract 3, regenerating nodules in 3, focal fatty infiltration in 2, Background Magnetic resonance imaging enhanced by indeterminate lesions in 3, and one patient each with hepatocyte-specific contrast media has been found useful to adenomas, hepatoblastoma and metastasis. Two pa- characterize liver lesions in adults and children. tients had multiple diagnoses. All FNH lesions (39), Objective To present our experience with gadobenate all regenerative nodules (19) and an indeterminate dimeglumine (Gd-BOPTA)-enhanced MRI for evaluation of lesion were iso- or hyperintense on hepatobiliary-phase im- focal liver lesions in children. ages while all other lesions (28) were hypointense to Materials and methods We retrospectively reviewed hepatic parenchyma. The average follow-up period was gadobenate-dimeglumine-enhanced MR images obtained 21.7 months. for evaluation of suspected hepatic lesions in 30 chil- Conclusion Our experience with gadobenate-enhanced MRI dren. Signal characteristics on various sequences in- indicates potential utility of gadobenate in the evaluation of cluding 45- to 60-min hepatobiliary phase images were pediatric hepatic lesions in differentiating FNH and noted by