Liver lesion. <1 cm.
Is this a low-risk patient or high-risk patient for having a malignant hepatic lesion?
Risk unknown (inadequate clinical information).
Note:
Low-risk patients: No known malignancy. No hepatic dysfunction. No hepatic risk factors.
High-risk patients: Known malignancy with a propensity to metastasize to the liver. Cirrhosis. Presence of hepatic risk factors.
Hepatic risk factors: hepatitis, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, alcoholism, sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cirrhosis, choledochal cysts, hemochromatosis and other hereditary hepatic conditions, and anabolic steroid use.