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Over the last 15 years, various oncology groups throughout the world have used the PRETEXT system for staging malignant primary liver tumours of childhood. This paper, written by members of the radiology and surgery committees of the International Childhood Liver Tumor Strategy Group (SIOPEL), presents various clarifications and revisions to the original PRETEXT system.

Although there is a significant relationship between cellularity and ADC, cell count probably is not the sole determinant of the ADC. Use of the ADC cannot enable accurate differentiation of malignant and benign lesions.

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