Differential diagnosis of focal liver lesions: role of spin-echo and contrast-enhanced dynamic MR imaging.

Radiology ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 193 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Yamashita ◽  
Y Hatanaka ◽  
H Yamamoto ◽  
A Arakawa ◽  
T Matsukawa ◽  
...  
1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Yamashita ◽  
M. Torashima ◽  
M. Takahashi ◽  
H. Mizutani ◽  
K. Miyazaki ◽  
...  

Conventional spin-echo (SE) and contrast-enhanced dynamic MR imaging were performed on a 1.5 T superconductive unit for evaluation of myometrial lesions in postmolar gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) in 10 women. MR imaging was done at the time of the initial examination (n=10), during (n=6), and after repeated courses of chemotherapy (n=10). The T2-weighted SE image revealed an enlarged uterus (n=7), disappearance of zonal anatomy (n=6), and heterogeneous signal intensities (n=8) with prominent flow voids (n=7). However, these abnormalities remained after repeated courses of chemotherapy, when the S-β-HCG level returned to the normal range. Myometrial lesions characteristically had marked enhancement with areas of unenhancement on dynamic MR images in patients with highly elevated S-β-HCG. Areas of contrast enhancement correlated with changes in S-β-HCG level. The enhancement was reduced with decrease in S-β-HCG level after repeated courses of chemotherapy. Six of 8 masses seen on T2-weighted images proved to be active trophoblastic lesions and 2 masses proved to be hematoma or necrosis. In 2 patients, abnormal myometrial lesions were detected only on contrast-enhanced dynamic MR imaging. These preliminary data indicate that contrast-enhanced dynamic MR imaging more clearly demonstrates myometrial involvement of postmolar GTD than conventional SE imaging.


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Takamichi Murakami ◽  
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Riccardo Iannaccone ◽  
Hisashi Abe ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 161 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z M Fan ◽  
Y Yamashita ◽  
M Harada ◽  
Y Baba ◽  
H Yamamoto ◽  
...  

1994 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Seon Hee Park ◽  
Sook Young Kim ◽  
Seok Jin Choi ◽  
Dong Hoon Song ◽  
Seong Sook Cha

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shruti Thakur ◽  
Anupam Jhobta ◽  
D.S. Dhiman ◽  
R.G. Sood ◽  
Arun Chauhan ◽  
...  

1995 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Yamashita ◽  
M. Torashima ◽  
M. Takahashi ◽  
H. Mizutani ◽  
K. Miyazaki ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
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J Merkle ◽  
R Grobholz ◽  
T Jaeger ◽  
MS Michel ◽  
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