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Soft tissue coccidioidomycosis on MRI
1Department of Radiology, University of California at San Francisco, USA.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|July 1, 1995
Abstract
Objective:
To determine the appearance of soft tissue coccidioidomycosis on MRI.
Materials And Methods:
Two cases of soft coccidioidomycosis with preoperative MR imaging are presented.
Results:
Prospectively, infection was considered unlikely both clinically and on imaging studies. In retrospect, the MR appearance was nonspecific in one case and suggestive of infection in the other.
Conclusion:
Radiologists should be prepared to entertain coccidioidal abscess as a differential consideration when soft tissue masses are seen on MRI, even when infection is not suggested clinically.