Role of Cine-Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Assessment of Mediastinal Masses with Uncertain/Equivocal Findings from Pre-Operative Computed Tomography Scanning.
Umberto CariboniLorenzo MontiEmanuele VoulazEfrem CiviliniEnrico CitterioCostanza LisiGiuseppe MarulliPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2024)
Cine-MRI outperforms conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT scans in the preoperative assessment of cardiovascular infiltration by mediastinal or pulmonary tumors, making it a useful imaging modality in the preoperative staging and evaluation of patients with equivocal findings at the chest CT scan stage.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- computed tomography
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance imaging
- dual energy
- lymph node
- positron emission tomography
- magnetic resonance
- diffusion weighted imaging
- high resolution
- patients undergoing
- image quality
- pulmonary hypertension
- ultrasound guided
- pet ct
- mass spectrometry
- clinical evaluation