TY - JOUR
T1 - Uterine cirsoid aneurysm
T2 - MRI and MRA
AU - Joja, Ikuo
AU - Asakawa, Mari
AU - Motoyama, Kazumi
AU - Mitsumori, Akihito
AU - Nakagawa, Tomio
AU - Kanazawa, Susumu
AU - Kuroda, Masahiro
AU - Togami, Izumi
AU - Hiraki, Yoshio
AU - Kudo, Takafumi
PY - 1996/4/22
Y1 - 1996/4/22
N2 - Uterine cirsoid aneurysm is uncommon. It is important to make a diagnosis of this disease preoperatively, because repeated curettages may induce life- threatening massive genital bleeding. We present a case of a 51-year-old woman with uterine cirsoid aneurysm in whom MRI and MRA were very useful for the preoperative diagnosis. The radiologic appearances on ultrasonography, CT, conventional SE MRI, MRA, dynamic MRI, and pelvic angiography are presented. Conventional SE T1-weighted and T2-weighted images demonstrated multiple flow voids in the uterus and bilateral adnexal regions, MRA demonstrated a cluster of distinct, tortuous, and coiled vascular channels in the pelvis. MRA could obtain images almost equal to angiography and was considered to be an excellent noninvasive imaging technique for the diagnosis of uterine cirsoid aneurysm.
AB - Uterine cirsoid aneurysm is uncommon. It is important to make a diagnosis of this disease preoperatively, because repeated curettages may induce life- threatening massive genital bleeding. We present a case of a 51-year-old woman with uterine cirsoid aneurysm in whom MRI and MRA were very useful for the preoperative diagnosis. The radiologic appearances on ultrasonography, CT, conventional SE MRI, MRA, dynamic MRI, and pelvic angiography are presented. Conventional SE T1-weighted and T2-weighted images demonstrated multiple flow voids in the uterus and bilateral adnexal regions, MRA demonstrated a cluster of distinct, tortuous, and coiled vascular channels in the pelvis. MRA could obtain images almost equal to angiography and was considered to be an excellent noninvasive imaging technique for the diagnosis of uterine cirsoid aneurysm.
KW - Magnetic resonance angiography
KW - Magnetic resonance imaging
KW - Malformations, arteriovenous
KW - Uterus, abnormalities
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U2 - 10.1097/00004728-199603000-00023
DO - 10.1097/00004728-199603000-00023
M3 - Article
C2 - 8606240
AN - SCOPUS:9244224606
SN - 0363-8715
VL - 20
SP - 290
EP - 294
JO - Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
JF - Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
IS - 2
ER -