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Endoscopic Endonasal Trans-sphenoidal Approach: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas
Published on: January 17, 2018
Imagen de RM STIR T2 con contraste realzada de adenomas hipofisarios
Ian T Mark1, Dominik Nickel2, Peter Kollasch2
1From the Mayo Clinic, Department of Radiology (I.T.M., G.B., P.J.F., A.M., S.A.M.), Siemens Medical Solutions USA (P.K., K.D.), Rochester, MN and Siemens Healthineers AG (D.N.), Research & Clinical Translation, Magnetic Resonance, Erlangen Germany. Mark.Ian@mayo.edu.
Abstract:
This technical report presents the application of a post contrast T2-weighted STIR sequence for improved visualization of pituitary adenomas. Although STIR is traditionally employed to null fat signal, it is typically avoided in post-contrast imaging due to the hypointense appearance of both fat and gadolinium enhanced tissues. Our approach exploits this characteristic to render the normal enhancing pituitary gland hypointense, thereby allowing the adenoma to remain hyperintense and thus increasing its conspicuity.
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