Diffusion-weighted MRI of metastatic liver lesions: is there a difference between hypervascular and hypovascular metastases?

CONCLUSION: Liver metastases are not a homogenous group of lesions with uniform DW-MRI features. Hypervascular metastases demonstrate significantly lower ADC values compared to hypovascular metastases. DW-MRI improved detection of hypervascular metastases compared to T2-w images alone and is a useful adjunct to T2-w images for their detection. PMID: 23986455 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Acta Radiologica - August 28, 2013 Category: Radiology Authors: Schmid-Tannwald C, Thomas S, Ivancevic MK, Dahi F, Rist C, Sethi I, Oto A Tags: Acta Radiol Source Type: research