Is this a low-risk patient or high-risk patient for having a malignant hepatic lesion?

Low risk.            

High risk.

Risk unknown (inadequate clinical information).

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Notes:

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.