Acute and subacute liver-related hemorrhage: MRI findings.
Magn Reson Imaging
; 17(2): 207-11, 1999 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-10215475
ABSTRACT
We retrospectively reviewed the MR studies on all patients with liver-related fluid collections compatible with acute or early subacute hemorrhage, who underwent MR imaging at our center between June 1994 and January 1998. All patients had a clinical history of an underlying liver lesion or injury with a duration of symptomatology of less than 5 days. In three patients with only 2-3 days of symptoms, the liver-related hemorrhagic fluid was hypointense on T1-weighted images and markedly hypointense on T2-weighted images relative to liver, consistent with intracellular deoxyhemoglobin. The fluid was relatively homogeneous in signal intensity. In three patients with 3-5 days of symptoms, the majority of liver-related fluid was hyperintense on T1-weighted images and hypointense on T2-weighted images relative to liver, consistent with intracellular methemoglobin. Three of these latter four patients also had fluid collections of varying T1-and T2-weighted signal intensity consistent with blood breakdown products of varying ages. Clinical findings matched the MR findings of acute/early subacute blood in all cases. Our results describe the findings of acute and early subacute liver hemorrhage. The most helpful MR feature of bleeding of recent origin is very low signal intensity of the fluid on T2-weighted imaging.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética
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Hemorragia
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Hepatopatias
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Magn Reson Imaging
Ano de publicação:
1999
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos