title: [Magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma].
abstract: The diagnosis of pheochromocytoma is biological. If ultrasound enables the visualization of certain adrenal tumours or hepatic metastasis, in fact two tests enable the topographic diagnosis, the screening of ectopic localizations and metastasis. They are IMBG scintigraphy and tomographic scanning. The place of magnetic resonance imaging is not yet specified. However, it has many advantages: absence of irradiations, good anatomic precision, meticulous screening of ectopic forms, of metastases and of adenopathies, study of the tissue characterization, good definition of the tumour relation with the vascular pedicles and the neighbouring structures.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Broussais, Paris.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chevalier
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Jaeger
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Rovani
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Van Viet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bautier
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pannier
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mousseaux
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lagneau
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rullière
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
vernacular_title: L'imagerie par résonance magnétique dans le diagnostic des phéochromocytomes.