Imaging the bone marrow with magnetic resonance during a crisis and in chronic forms of sickle cell disease.
Five patients with sickle cell disease have been studied by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in three instances during a crisis. Attention was directed to the pelvis and lower extremities. Bone marrow pathology has been classified according to generalised or circumscribed alterations in signal intensity on T1 weighted spin-echo sequences. Both acute and chronic changes were observed.
van Zanten
T E
TE
Department of Radiology, Free University Hospital Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Statius van Eps
L W
LW
Golding
R P
RP
Valk
J
J
Stratius van Eps
L W
LW
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male