Bronchial carcinoid tumor: demonstration by dynamic inversion recovery turbo-flash MR imaging

Eur Radiol. 1998;8(8):1400-2. doi: 10.1007/s003300050559.

Abstract

A 38-year-old woman was referred to our hospital following the discovery of a right hilar mass on chest radiograph. Retrospectively, a hilar mass could be seen on a chest X-ray which had been obtained 5 years earlier. A coronal dynamic inversion recovery turbo-FLASH gadolinium-enhanced sequence was performed, demonstrating the right lesion which enhanced during the systemic arterial phase indicating an arterial supply from the bronchial arterial circulation. The surgical and pathological findings were a bronchial carcinoid tumor, with foci of bone formation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Bronchial Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Bronchial Neoplasms / surgery
  • Carcinoid Tumor / diagnosis*
  • Carcinoid Tumor / surgery
  • Contrast Media
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Pneumonectomy

Substances

  • Contrast Media