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Seminoma MRI
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Pelvic MRI may be helpful in the diagnosis of seminoma. On MRI, seminoma is characterized by multinodular tumors of uniform signal intensity.In seminoma fibrovascular septa,indicate with low signal intensity on T2-weighted images and more enhance background tumor on postcontrast T1-weighted images.
MRI
MRI
Pelvic MRI may be helpful in the diagnosis of seminoma. Findings on MRI diagnostic of seminoma include:[1][2]
- Hypointense to normal testicular tissue on T2
- Visualization of fibrovascular septa, which demonstrate low signal intensity on T2-weighted images
- Inhomogeneous enhancement on T1 with contrast
References
References
- ↑ Marko J, Wolfman DJ, Aubin AL, Sesterhenn IA (2017). “Testicular Seminoma and Its Mimics: From the Radiologic Pathology Archives”. Radiographics. 37 (4): 1085–1098. doi:10.1148/rg.2017160164. PMC 5548453. PMID 28574809.
- ↑ Radiographic features of testicular seminoma. Dr Marcin Czarniecki and Dr Andrew Dixon et al. Radiopaedia 2016. http://radiopaedia.org/articles/testicular-seminoma-1. Accessed on March 7, 2016
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