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Polyarteritis nodosa MRI

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]; Haritha Machavarapu, M.B.B.S.

Overview

Overview

MRI is useful to identify hemorrhage and ischemia in the central nervous system. New MRI techniques utilize perfusion weighted images and blood diffusion to distinguish intracranial hemorrhage and reversible ischemia. MRI can also be used to image the abdomen when there is GI involvement.

MRI

MRI

  • MRI is useful to identify hemorrhage and ischemia in the central nervous system. [1][2]
    • New MRI techniques utilize perfusion weighted images and blood diffusion to distinguish intracranial hemorrhage and reversible ischemia.
  • MRI can also be used to image the abdomen when there is GI involvement.
References

References

  1. Hakyemez B, Erdogan C, Gokalp G, Dusak A, Parlak M (January 2010). “Solitary metastases and high-grade gliomas: radiological differentiation by morphometric analysis and perfusion-weighted MRI”. Clin Radiol. 65 (1): 15–20. doi:10.1016/j.crad.2009.09.005. PMID 20103416.
  2. De Belder FE, Oot AR, Van Hecke W, Venstermans C, Menovsky T, Van Marck V, Van Goethem J, Van den Hauwe L, Vandekerckhove M, Parizel PM (2012). “Diffusion tensor imaging provides an insight into the microstructure of meningiomas, high-grade gliomas, and peritumoral edema”. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 36 (5): 577–82. doi:10.1097/RCT.0b013e318261e913. PMID 22992609.

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