Diagnostic accuracy of high-resolution T2-weighted MRI vs contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI to screen for cerebellopontine angle lesions in symptomatic patients.
Mayke A HentschelH P M KunstM M RoversS C A SteensPublished in: Clinical otolaryngology : official journal of ENT-UK ; official journal of Netherlands Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology & Cervico-Facial Surgery (2018)
T2w has a very high diagnostic accuracy for the presence of CPA lesions in patients with asymmetrical audiovestibular complaints. However, in a screening protocol with T2w only, smallest vestibular schwannomas as well as rare differential diagnoses that probably only would be detected on GdT1w may remain unnoticed.
Keyphrases
- contrast enhanced
- magnetic resonance imaging
- diffusion weighted
- magnetic resonance
- high resolution
- computed tomography
- diffusion weighted imaging
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- randomized controlled trial
- prognostic factors
- mass spectrometry
- patient reported outcomes
- patient reported
- liquid chromatography