Magnetic resonance imaging and tissue characterization of a renal cell carcinoma and its osseous metastasis. Report of a case.
A patient with renal cell carcinoma, first presenting because of symptoms from an osseous metastasis, was examined with CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Both the primary tumor and the metastasis were well demonstrated by both methods. MRI tissue characterization showed that the T1 values in the kidney and the metastasis were the same, as were the T2 values. This may mean a potential for the MRI to define primary tumors when a metastasis is found.
D000368:Aged; D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005266:Femoral Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed