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MR Imaging of Pulmonary Nodular Lesions
Kiminori Fujimoto11Department of Radiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Japan.
Considerable experience has been gained with MR imaging of thoracic diseases, however the clinical role of MR imaging for staging of lung cancer remains limited. It offers advantages such as the assessment of chest-wall/mediastinal invasion, superior sulcus tumor, or differentiating hilar tumor from secondary peripheral obstructive changes in patients in whom CT remains equivocal. Although the evaluations of tumor characteristics using contrast-enhanced dynamic MR imaging, such as differentiating malignant from benign nodules or imaging-pathologic correlation, have been reported recently, only a limited number have been shown to have a significant clinical usefulness. In this article, the clinical usefulness of MR imaging for pulmonary nodule is illustrated and reviewed.
key words: Pulmonary nodular lesion, Lung cancer, MR imaging, Dynamic MR imaging
JJLC 42 (7): 729-734, 2002
