[Focal lesions in whole-body MRI in multiple myeloma : Quantification of tumor mass and correlation with disease-related parameters and prognosis].

CONCLUSIONS: Quantification of tumor mass in the focal infiltration pattern is performed more accurately by volumetry than LD due to the predominant existence of non-spherical lesions. The patient cohort with clinical parameters predominantly in the normal range is distributed to ISS stage I and partly pretreated, a fact that makes interpretation of absent correlations more difficult. Consider also a variation in activitiy of lesions and a diffuse infiltration not detectable by MRI.
PMID: 28905085 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Der Radiologe - September 13, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Brandelik SC, Krzykalla J, Hielscher T, Hillengass J, Kloth JK, Kauczor HU, Weber MA Tags: Radiologe Source Type: research