Detection of cavernous malformations after whole-brain radiotherapy in primitive neuroectodermal tumor patients-comparing susceptibility-weighted imaging and T2 gradient-echo sequences.
Vadim KhasminskyMichal YalonGahl GreenbergGalia TsarfatyEli AtarChen HoffmannPublished in: Neuroradiology (2018)
The sensitivity of SWI in the detection of hypointense lesions in patients after whole-brain irradiation is significantly higher than that of the GRE sequence. It appears that almost all subjects eventually develop small hypointense lesions after radiotherapy, and some of them progress to cavernous malformations. The clinical significance of the increased sensitivity of SWI in this group of patients is not entirely certain.
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