ISSN:
1432-2161
Keywords:
Key words Angiomyolipoma (AML)
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Soft tissue
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Thigh
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MRI
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CT
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Angiography
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract A 41-year-old man presented with an asymptomatic mass in the right medial thigh. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a well-demarcated, 10-cm mass in the right adductor muscles. The margins of the mass exhibited high signal intensity and the rest showed low or iso signal intensity on T1-weighted MR images. However, the high signal intensity was decreased on T2-weighted images with fat suppression. The central part of the tumor was of inhomogeneous high signal intensity on T2-weighted images; after Gd-DTPA injection it enhanced inhomogeneously on T1-weighted images with fat suppression. On dynamic computed tomography (CT) in the arterial phase, there were strongly enhancing spotty areas in the tumor. At surgery, a yellow-whitish tumor was resected and a pathological diagnosis of angiomyolipoma (AML) in the thigh was made.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002560050612
