title: [Value of magnetic resonance tomography in Pancoast and other tumors with infiltration of the thoracic wall].
abstract: Twenty-two patients with intrathoracic malignancies and suspected Pancoast and "break-out" tumours were submitted to a comparative investigation using CT scanning and MRI to detect infiltration of the chest-wall. In the patients, the lesion had been confirmed at surgery, which revealed malignant infiltration in 19 cases, and excluded in filtration in 3 cases. In 14 out of 19 patients, the CT scan revealed tumourous involvement of the chest-wall, while in five out of 19 patients, no such involvement was detected. Using MR imaging, tumour infiltration was detected in all 19 patients. A reliable MR sign of tumour involvement was the detection of signal-intensive lesions within the chest-wall in T1-weighted images following the administration of Gd-DTPA, and in the T2-weighted images. In contrast, signal enhancement of the pleura was found both in tumour involvement and in inflammation. In suspected tumorous chest-wall invasion MR imaging can demonstrate tumour involvement of the chest-wall when CT is equivocal.
authors.affiliation: Radiologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universitätsklinikum Rudolf Virchow, Charlottenburg, Freie Universität Berlin.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bittner
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaiser
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loddenkemper
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schörner
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Felix
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010178:Pancoast Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013909:Thorax / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: Wertigkeit der Magnetresonanztomographie (MR) bei Pancoast- und anderen Tumoren mit Infiltration der Thoraxwand.