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[Conventional and cine-MRT in patients with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta]
W Gross-Fengels1, G Friedmann, F Lemaitre
1Institut und Poliklinik für Radiologische Diagnostik, Universität zu Köln.
Rofo : Fortschritte Auf Dem Gebiete Der Rontgenstrahlen Und Der Nuklearmedizin
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
We studied 40 patients with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta by MRI. These results were compared with those obtained by real-time sonography (n = 40), angiography (n = 32) and CT (n = 16). In 30 patients the imaging results were compared--as far as possible--with the operative findings. MRI proved more reliable, especially if compared with sonography, in evaluating renal or iliac artery involvement. Mural thrombi were detected more often (93%) by MRI than by CT (85%) or sonography (83%). Cine-MRI showed strong turbulences in 33%. Turbulences did not correlate with the size of the aneurysm.