胸部MRI検査における胸腺腫瘍の評価における重要性
Maria Clara N Lorca1, Michael Lanuti2, Jeanne B Ackman1
1Department of Radiology, Division of Thoracic Imaging and Intervention, Austen 202, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114.
Abstract:
The widespread and ever-expanding use of computed tomography for disease, trauma, cardiac imaging, and lung cancer screening has led to increased incidental detection of indeterminate thymic nodules and masses on CT. Chest MRI provides increased diagnostic specificity and delineation of disease extent and should therefore both reduce unnecessary thymectomy and improve clinical management of thymic masses.
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