Abdominal macronodular tuberculomas: MR findings
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1Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
Purpose:
Our goal was to determine the appearance of abdominal macronodular tuberculomas on MRI.
Method:
MR findings of two patients with abdominal macronodular tuberculoma, one of the liver and the other in the kidney, were reviewed.
Results:
The two tuberculomas, histologically confirmed to have no calcification, hemorrhaging, or fibrosis, commonly showed low signal intensity on both T1- and T2-weighted images.
Conclusion:
We report two cases of a macronodular tuberculoma in the liver and kidney, which is visualized as a region of hypointensity on T2-weighted MR images. This finding appears to be important in reaching a definitive diagnosis of an abdominal tuberculoma.