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3983386

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-5-14
pubmed:abstractText
Thirty-three patients with cystic intracranial lesions were examined with both magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and CT scanning. The abnormalities imaged included 11 arachnoid cysts, 10 cystic tumors, six postoperative cysts, and three colloid cysts. The intensity patterns of the cyst contents as encoded with routine spin-echo imaging sequences enabled subdivision of the cysts into three categories. Arachnoid and postoperative cysts had an intensity pattern identical to cerebrospinal fluid. More proteinaceous cysts, including inflammatory cysts and nonhemorrhagic tumoral cysts, had an intermediate intensity pattern with characteristically low intensity on the short TR sequence (0.5 sec), but had clearly higher intensity than cerebrospinal fluid on the long TR sequences (2 sec). Finally, three cystic tumors with hemorrhagic fluid and three colloid cysts had a distinctly different pattern of high intensity on all four MR sequences through the same section. MR was superior to CT in characterizing intracranial cystic lesions because of its ability to categorize cysts into these three groups on the basis of the intensity pattern of cyst contents, thereby improving diagnostic specificity and patient management.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0033-8419
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
155
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
363-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Cystic intracranial lesions: magnetic resonance imaging.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article