ArticleFrontiers in oncology2022
Role of diffusion-weighted MRI in differentiation between benign and malignant anterior mediastinal masses.
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- Diagnostic modalities in the mediastinum and the role of bronchoscopy in mediastinal assessment: a narrative review.Mediastinum (Hong Kong, China) · 2024Review
- Diffusion-Weighted MR Imaging of the Thymus in Children with Non-Thymic Neoplasms.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) is considered to be a useful biomarker to characterize the cellularity of lesions, yet its application in the thorax to evaluate anterior mediastinal lesions has not been well investigated. The aims of our study were to describe the magnetic resonance (MR) characteristics of anterior mediastinal masses and to assess the role of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value in distinguishing benign from malignant lesions of the anterior mediastinum. We conducted a retrospective cross-sectional study including 55 patients with anterior mediastinal masses who underwent preinterventional MR scanning with the following sequences: T1 VIBE DIXON pre and post-contrast, T2 HASTE, T2 TIRM, DWI-ADC map (b values of 0 and 2000 sec/mm
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