Gadolinium DTPA Enhancement Characteristics of the Rat Sciatic Nerve after Crush Injury at 4.7T.
B J HillK R PadgettV B KalraA MarcilloB BowenP PattanyW Dalton DietrichRobert M QuencerPublished in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2017)
Gd-DTPA enhancement of peripheral nerves may only occur above a certain crush-severity threshold. This phenomenon may explain the intermittent observation of Gd-DTPA enhancement of peripheral nerves after traumatic injury. The observation of enhancement may be useful in judging the severity of injury after nerve trauma.