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Angiomyolipoma MRI

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2],Rekha, M.D.

Overview

Overview

Abdominal MRI may be diagnostic of angiomyolipoma. On MRI, angiomyolipoma is characterized by high signal intensity on non-fat saturated sequences and loss of signal following fat saturation.

MRI

MRI

Abdominal MRI may be diagnostic of angiomyolipoma. On MRI fat saturated techniques demonstrate:

  • High signal intensity on non-fat saturated sequences
  • Loss of signal following fat saturation
References

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Angiomyolipoma Image courtesy of Radswiki Radiopaedia(original file “here”). Creative Commons BY-SA-NC


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